bull lyre
Sumerian lyre with religious figure of bull.
genre
type of music composition
hymn

song to a god

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(sumerian)

diatonic
7 note
notation

earliest known-clay tabet 1400-1250bce

too poorly understood to read with confidence. develops over lots of time.

auoli

2 pipes w/reed

-Dionysius worshiped with this instrument

lyre

Apollo’s instrument

basically a small harp

Kithara
large lyre 300bce
ethos

one’s ethical character of being and behaving.

significance: Pythagorean view of music-music affects other realms

diastematic (movement)
voice moves between sustained pitches separated by discrete intervals
tetrachord

“four strings”

4 notes make P4

-diatonic

-chromatic

-enharmonic

Greater Perfect System
2 octave span of tetra chords-greek msic
species
ordering of whole/semitones in 4/5/8tave
tonoi

scale or set of pitches within a specific range or region of the voice

assoc. w/mood