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4 Euripides, Iphigeneia in Aulis 784-92
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(I pray neither I nor children of my stock may ever have those prospects that the Lydian women rich in gold and the Phrygians' wives will think on as they ply their looms: 'Which man will pull my fine hair to tears and ravish me amid the ruin of my fatherland?') |
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The readings of many of the notes are very uncertain, but an enharmonic pyknon e  f is clearly identifiable. The note-sequence on tanysas is like that on akatou thoas in 3. Notes from a higher, conjunct tetrachord (a)  d' are plausibly recognized, and there is also a high f' which seems to play a role in wide leaps here and there. The general structure of the scale, two conjunct tetrachords with wide intervals at the top, has something in common with the Damonian Mixolydian (p. 175), e  f g a  e', and might be a variant of it. The notation appears to be Hyperaeolian (an auletic key according to Anon. Bellerm. 28) and Aeolian. |
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The rhythm is aeolic. As in 3, some long syllables appear to be divided between notes. |
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The passage is not strophic, and we might expect a correlation between melody and word accents. But there are several apparent contradictions. The high note on the interrogative pronoun tis 'which?' is paralleled in 32 and 45. |
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At the end of polychrysoi there is what I read tentatively as an |
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