People of Importance
Who taught this view: Music is governed by mathematical laws and it operated in the visible and invisible world.
Pythagoras
What is the only extant record of Greek music?
Epitaph of Seikilos
The Doctrine of Ethos is a philosophical theory from ancient Greece that proposes a connection between music, emotions, and ethical conduct. True or False?
True
Aristotle wrote Republic. True or False?
False, he wrote Politics.
The Romans used music in what settings? Give at least 3 examples.
Festivals, competitions, religious ceremonies, military events, banquets, public entertainments (theaters, circuses, etc), and funerals.
What is the term that describes the idea that the harmonious relationship of the plants as they revolve around the earth creates unheard music.
The Music of Spheres
These two Greek writers explored the idea of harmonies.
Aristoxenus and Cleonedes
What shared belief about music did Greek writers, Plato and Aristotle, have with church fathers?
They all believed that lawlessness in music leads to anarchy. Music can affect a person's character.
A musical texture characterized by a single melodic line or voice without any harmonic accompaniment is called:
Monophony
Martianus Capella wrote Die institutione musica. True or False?
Name the types of tetrachords.
Diatonic, Chromatic, Enharmonic
In his Politics, Aristotle expanded on this idea, agreeing that music could imitate emotions such as anger, calmness, or joy, and that listening to music could evoke these emotions in the listener. This idea could be referred to as:
Theory of Imitation
Pythagoras was the one who systematized the tetrachord and linked intervals, tones, and semitones to scales.
False, those ideas were systematized by Aristoxenus and Cleonedes.
Jewish temples and Christian churches both practiced the action of singing hymns. True or False?
False, Jewish temple services did not tend to sing hymns, rather they sang psalms.
What is the term that defined the concept that encompassed the structure of society, as well as music, creating a unification of an orderly whole?
Harmonia