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

song to a god

(sumerian)

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diatonic
Definition
7 note
Term
notation
Definition

earliest known-clay tabet 1400-1250bce

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

Term
auoli
Definition

2 pipes w/reed

-Dionysius worshiped with this instrument

Term
lyre
Definition

Apollo's instrument

basically a small harp

Term
Kithara
Definition
large lyre 300bce
Term
ethos
Definition

one's ethical character of being and behaving.

significance: Pythagorean view of music-music affects other realms

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

"four strings"

4 notes make P4

-diatonic

-chromatic

-enharmonic

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

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

assoc. w/mood

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