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Greece and Music
Greeks believed that music nurtured a man's relationship with the God's. It was Essential to the pattern and texture of Greek life, as it was an important feature of religious festivals, marriage, funeral rites, and banquet gatherings. Also music was always present at the Pythian Games, and the Olympics.
Phythagoras was the father of music theory in Ancient Greece. He observed the link between numbers and music by analyzing the vibrations of strings of various lenghts.
According to legends Pythagoras discovered the mathematical rationale of musical consonance by the weights of hammers used by smiths. He applied the ratios of an instrument called a canon (monochord), and by that they were able to determine mathematically the intonation on an entire musical system. He laid the foundations of our knowledge of the study of harmonics.
Panpipes: Another instrument alledgedly invented by the God's, was a cane with tubes arranged in a scale. Sound would be preoduced form the blowing across the hole.
Instruments
Sources Cited
Emily, Nona, Karin. "Ancient Musical Instruments," Oracle Think Quest, 2004, Web, 26 Sep 2010. <http://library.thinkquest.org/04apr/00275/ancient_ins.htm>.
Michael, Lahanas. "Part 1: Instruments. " Ancient Greek Music. Web. 26 Sep 2010. <http://mlahanas.de/Greeks/Music.htm>.
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