Greek Modes of Persuasion
This famous Greek thinker coined the terms Ethos, Pathos, and Logos as different forms of appeal, taking things one step further than his teacher Plato.
Who is Aristotle?
Roaming musicians from this time were known not only for the melodies they created, but also their lyricism in this old time form of literature.
What is poetry?
These seemingly simple congregations first happened here, where people finally had enough to sustain life in a single location.
What are cities?
This teaching tool, where the instructor points to particular joints of the hand to show pitches, was invented by a famous music theorist from Arezzo.
What is the Guidonian Hand?
This field of study involves all of the systems and practices that are used to make and understand music. It's not a scientific law, it's a...
What is music theory?
This mode of persuasion was used when great philosophers and leaders argued that certain types of music can affect your soul or your "ethical" character.
What is Ethos?
The Minnesingers followed many of the traditions and practices of their time, but they originated from which modern day country.
What is Germany?
This area of land is nicknamed for its ability to grow... flakey pastries? Maybe not, perhaps it is related to the round, slivered shape of the rivers around it.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This style of music was used in the church for 1000 years, due to the belief that instruments were not acceptable "company" for the voices.
What is unaccompanied singing?
These Greek goddess sisters are credited with bringing music to the humanity.
Who are the muses?
This mode of persuasion was used when the Greeks rejected the idea of freedom in music, instead only preferring art that "followed the rules".
What is Logos?
What are guilds?
These two rivers surround Mesopotamia, providing plenty of natural resources for sustainable life.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This religious figure lived life in a convent and wrote some of the earliest major works in chant. Her Ordo virtutum dramatized religious ideals of virtues throughout its 82 songs.
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
This Greek philosophical ideal states that everything works together, and it is the origin of our term for multiple notes sounding together.
What is harmonia?
This mode of persuasion was used when the composer tried to pull at the listener's emotions, such as excitement for a dance number or tension for the background to a tragedy.
What is Pathos?
These roving musicians from Britain sang songs of heroes and battles as they strummed a lute or lyre, and are often featured in fantasy movies, books, and video games.
Who are bards?
Paper wasn't very easy to make back in these times, so the oldest nearly complete piece of music was found on this object from Ugarit.
What is a clay tablet?
This term refers to all of the religious texts, traditions, and practices used by a group.
What is liturgy?
Rather than calling specified pitches "notes", Gregorian Chant had a different name for its notated tones. They are quite old, despite the name.
What are neumes?
This hit film, first released in the year 1984 and later remade in 2011, has the main theme of music's powerful effect on the Ethos of the youth, with a hop stepping finale where they "kick off the Sunday shoes".
What is Footloose?
These musicians started out as religious students such as monks and clerics, and they wrote new secular songs in Latin rather than the local vernacular languages.
Who were the Goliards?
This was a unique version of a popular instrument adorned with the caricature of a horned bovine, and it was only used for the most special of occasions.
What is the bull lyre?
This term refers to the practice of assigning specific words or syllables to particular pitches in order to teach new singers more quickly.
What is solmization?
This chant was specifically used for funerals and later became a theme for death and darkness in future compositions.