Music and Myth
What is Apollo
The Romans developed many new _____________.
Instruments
This man was a shepherd-turned poet.
Hesiod
This song was found on a gravestone
What is: Song of Seikilos
Greek musical scales
What is: Modes
The nine gods who inspired poets and musicians
Muses
This stringed roman instrument is often plucked.
Lyre
This potentially blind poet we know very little about, but he wrote two very famous epic poems.
Homer
This is the largest and oldest collection of Hebrew songs
Musicologist, mathematician, and philosopher
Pythagoras
A musician who went down to Hades to save his wife
Orpheus
This poet the emperor Augustus liked
Virgil
Illiad and the Odyssey
This is the oldest complete composition we have
Song of Seikilos
These three instruments were the main Greek instruments
Cithara, Aulos, and Lyre
Hermes
The poet the emperor Augustus disliked
Catullus
The name of Hesiod's two poems are:
Theogyny and Works and Days
This tablet is the oldest surviving written music
Hurrian Tablet
The idea that celestial spheres in space produce divine harmonies
Musica Mundana - or Musica Universalis
Turtle shell
The epic poem composed by the virtuous roman poet
Aeneid
This character from the Odyssey is potentially based on Homer
Demodokus
The earliest hymn whose composer is known, but not complete
Hymn to apollo
This mode has half steps between scale degrees 2^3 and 5^6