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sources, when the octave is to be covered, an eighth note, Paramese 'alongside-Mese', appears between Mese and Trite, and it is this that stands a tone above Mese. The notes then form two similar, disjunct tetrachords (Table 8.1.). |
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In its seven-note form, at least, the nomenclature no doubt goes back long before Philolaus; some of it may be inherited from the times when lyres generally had only three or four strings. Hypatos and neatos are archaic words, scarcely found otherwise in Classical Greek except in poetry and in fossilized cult titles.8 And 'forefinger string' may seem a more natural term to choose for a four-stringed lyre than for a seven-stringed one, where fingers had to move about, and the forefinger was surely one of the most mobile. |
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We saw in Chapter 6 that most of the fifth-century scales of which we have any knowledge did not exceed the octave. One of them, however, the Dorian of the Damonian set, extended over a ninth. It incorporated two disjunct tetrachords (corresponding to Hypate-Mese-Paramese-Nete) plus a further note a tone below Hypate. The |
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professional performers. Cf. 'Hippoc.' De Victu 1. 8. 2, ps.-Arist. Pr. 19. 34, 41, PTeb. 694, Aristid. Quint. p. 15. 8, Porph. in Ptol. Harm. p. 96. 21 ff.; Burkert, LS 390. |
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8Neatos survived in Hippocratic writing and in the slow-moving Arcadian dialect. |
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