Presentation 1

Question 1

Golden Proportion: Fifth

Answer 1

3:2

Question 2

Golden Proportion: Fourth

Answer 2

4:3

Question 3

Golden Proportion: Octave

Answer 3

2:1

Question 4

Much of Western society hinges on what the ancient Greek philosophers wrote about music, including…(List in order)

Answer 4

Socrates
Plato
Aristotle

Question 5

Platonic philosophy

Answer 5

(that which is connected with Plato) is not concerned with the technical aspects of music as much as how it affects our souls (psyches).

Question 6

The names of the modes are taken from the Greek tribes that used them:

Answer 6

Dorian, Phrygian, Myxolydian, and Lydian.

Question 7

What two groups are the Seven Liberal Arts categorized?

Answer 7

Trivium and the Quadrivium.

Question 8

What THREE subjects are in Trivium

Answer 8

Rhetoric, Logic, and Grammar

Question 9

What FOUR subjects are in Quadrivium

Answer 9

Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy and Music

Question 10

What are the dates of the scholar/mathematician Boethius?

Answer 10

(480-524 CE)

Question 11

What three types did Boethius classify music?

Answer 11

Musica Mundana, Musica Humana, Musica Instrumentalis

Question 12

Music Mundana

Answer 12

the music of the spheres & universe (ancients thought that when all was right, all the planets revolved in a way that created divine music & divine harmony)

Question 13

Musica Humana

Answer 13

the music of the human body (like the music of the universe, except on a smaller scale, the human body as a divine mechanism, perfectly constructed in divine harmony)

Question 14

Music Instrumentalis

Answer 14

music that can be heard and played aloud on instruments

Question 15

What are Pythagorus dates?

Answer 15

ca. 500 BCE

Question 16

Please list the three intervals discovered by a Greek mathematician and philosopher, please state the name and circumstances under which he discovered them

Answer 16

He discovered them as he was walking, he heard a blacksmith hammering and he heard a pitch. He classified these pitches into what is called the Golden Proportion

Question 17

List the three major Greek philosophers includeing what two of them pass down about music in Greek society

Answer 17

Socrates Plato and Aristotle - Plato believed that music was to be controlled and not listened to, too much. Those who listened often would be expected to have anarchy and violence. Aristotle believed it should be learned and to stop at that, as professional musicians were on the same level as prostitutes in Greek society

Question 18

Discuss the start date of the Middle ages and what was happening politically and socially during this time.

Answer 18

Started in 410. Politically, The last Emperor Romulus Augustus is deposed by barbarians in 476 (due to inbreeding, he was a semi-retarded young boy)….