MUSI 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hypophrygian Mode, Hypodorian Mode, Cithara
26 May 2016
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Pythagoras used math in music to prove there is a spiritual being connecting music to numbers to gods: overlap between math and music. Women were not permitted to play certain instruments, only allowed to play stringed instruments (lyre, kithara) Belief that modes were capable of changing moods, character, behaviour, and healing you. Greeks had a system to show melodic pitches and rhythms. Ancient greek music was not just about melody; rhythm, melody, words united: highest type of art form contained poetry. Listened to : epitaph of seikilos (seikilos: epitaph as long as you live , euripides: stasimon chorus. Mixolydian, lydian, phrygian, dorian, hypolydian, hypophrygian, hypodorian: ancient greeks had their own modes, hypo = under (usually 4 notes under) Made of three types of tetrachords: diatonic: e f g a, chromatic: e f f# a, enharmonic: e (1/4 e) f a. Based on quarter tones, cannot play on keyboard. Music is useful for education, ritual, and in entertainment and relaxation.
