Welcome to Ancient Greece
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Our music was once divided into its proper forms...It was not permitted to exchange the melodic styles of these
established forms and others. Knowledge and informed judgment penalized disobedience. There were no whistles,
unmusical mob-noises, or clapping for applause. The rule was to listen silently and learn; boys, teachers, and the crowd were kept in order by threat of the stick. . . . But
later, an unmusical anarchy was led by poets who had natural talent, but were ignorant of the laws of
music...Through foolishness they deceived themselves into thinking that there was no right or wrong way in
music, that it was to be judged good or bad by the pleasure it gave. By their works and their theories they
infected the masses with the presumption to think themselves adequate judges. So our theatres, once silent,
grew vocal, and aristocracy of music gave way to a pernicious theatrocracy...the criterion was not music, but
a reputation for promiscuous cleverness and a spirit of law-breaking.[
Welcome to Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece Platos Socrates Aristotle
• Philosophy• Math• Science
Accident? Music = Mathemetics of the Cosmos???
Music in Greek Life Culture not unlike our own: Weddings Funerals Festivals Games (Olympics were born here after
all) Theater!
› But we will talk more about that later…
Music was a big part of life
But Music Theory = MATH music of the spheres
› the stars, the sun, the planets, all vibrating in harmony
mathematical and philosophical description of how the universe works
Pythagoras of Samos Math guy “Pythagorian
theorem”› `Don’t Worry Ms.
Askins will teach you later….
a2+b2=c2
Pythagoras of Samos According to legend, the way
Pythagoras discovered that musical notes could be translated into math equations was when one day he passed blacksmiths at work, and thought that the sounds from their anvils being hit were beautiful and musical and decided that whatever scientific law caused this to happen must be mathematical and could be applied to music.
Pythagoras of Samos He went to the
blacksmiths to learn how this had happened by looking at their tools, he discovered that it was because the hammers were "simple ratios of each other, one was half the size of the first, another was 2/3 the size, and so on."
Pythagoras of Samos MYTHBUSTED these ratios are only
work with string length (such as the string of a and not to hammer weight
However, Pythagoras probably discovered these properties of string length.
Music in Math Where else does MATH play a BIG part
in MUSIC?