The Modes of Ancient Greek Music. D. B. Monro

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       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

       THE END

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