The Modes of Ancient Greek Music
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THE MODES
ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC
MONRO
The Modes
Ancient Greek Music
D. B. MONRO, M.A.
PREFACE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE MODES OF ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC.
§ 1. Introductory.
§ 2. Statement of the question.
§ 3. The Authorities.
§ 4. The Early Poets.
§ 5. Plato.
§ 6. Heraclides Ponticus.
§ 7. Aristotle—the Politics.
§ 8. The Aristotelian Problems.
§ 9. The Rhetoric.
§ 10. Aristoxenus.
§ 11. Names of Keys (hypo-).
§ 12. Plutarch's Dialogue on Music.
§ 13. Modes employed on different Instruments.
§ 14. Recapitulation— harmonia and tonos.
§ 15. The Systems of Greek Music.
§ 16. The Standard Octachord System.
§ 17. Earlier Heptachord Scales.
§ 18. The Perfect System.
§ 19. Relation of System and Key.
§ 20. Tonality of the Greek musical scale.
§ 21. The Species of a Scale.
§ 22. The Scales as treated by Aristoxenus.
§ 23. The Seven Species.
§ 24. Relation of the Species to the Keys.
§ 25. The Ethos of Music.
§ 26. The Ethos of the Genera and Species.
§ 27. The Musical Notation.
§ 28. Traces of the Species in the Notation.
§ 29. Ptolemy's Scheme of Modes.
§ 30. Nomenclature by Position.
§ 31. Scales of the Lyre and Cithara.
§ 32. Remains of Greek Music.
§ 33. Modes of Aristides Quintilianus.
§ 34. Credibility of Aristides Quintilianus.
§ 35. Evidence for Scales of different species.
§ 36. Conclusion.
§ 37. Epilogue—Speech and Song.
APPENDIX
INDEX
OF PASSAGES DISCUSSED OR REFERRED TO.
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