Pre-Medieval Music Flashcards
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Music was a luxury of the ____ in the beginning due to the costly nature of creating _____ from _______.
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elite, parchment, sheep’s skin
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Music began as an ______ but we study it as a _______.
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oral genre, literary genre
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Q
Definition of a change in style:
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A change in what is thought of as beautiful in a culture.
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Function of music in Greece:
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- religious rites
- theatre
- entertainment
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Q
“Habit of Music Theory”
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- construction of melodies from four-note patterns
- classification of melodies by scale pattern
Thus a framework for musical analysis
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Music as “sounding numbers”:
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Pythagoras noted mathematical ratios for intervals:
2:1 octave
3:2 fifth
4:3 fourth
Medieval theorists considered these the “perfect intervals”
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Q
Three Varieties of Music
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- musica mundana: music of the spheres
- musica humana: “human music”
- musica instrumentalis: sounding music
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Doctrine of Ethos
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- Idea that music could have very powerful effects on human character and moral behavior
- Music can influence people for good and ill
