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Music of ancient Greece

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musical traditions of ancient Greece

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Now that a paean differs from a song made for a dance is manifest from the poems of Pindar, who made both. 10. Polymnestus also composed nomes for flute-music; but in the Orthian nome he made use of his lyric vein, as the students in harmony declare. But in this we cannot be positive, because we have nothing of certainty concerning it from antiquity; and whether Thaletas of Crete was a composer of hymns is much…
Plutarch, Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 1
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Simultaneously there came into use the different modes--Dorian, Ionian, Phrygian, Æolian, and Lydian--answering to our keys; and of these there were ultimately fifteen. As yet, however, there was but little heterogeneity in the time of their music. Instrumental music during this period being merely the accompaniment of vocal music, and vocal music being completely subordinated to words, the singer being also the…
Herbert Spencer, Essays on education and kindred subjects
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And this dance, as Dicaearchus writes, is called among the Delians, the Crane. This he danced round the Ceratonian Altar, so called from its consisting of horns taken from the left side of the head.
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