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we get seven-note scales that may well resemble what Archaic musicians knew as Dorian or Phrygian. Lydian is problematic, as Damon recorded more than one variety of Lydian. If we take the one labelled 'Lydian' as opposed to 'Tense Lydian', it is not clear whether the quarter-tone intervals at the top and bottom of the scale, which look like ornamental affixes, should be left as quarter-tones. If they are, the result will be |
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The Ionian and Mixolydian scales become |
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But this is all somewhat speculative. There may have been variant forms of scale covered by a single name, and there may have been other changes in the course of time besides the division of semitones. It must be remembered that some old aulos tunes, like the Spondeion attributed to Olympus and certain pieces attributed to Polymnestus, used intervals of 3/4 or 1 1/4 tone.18 |
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Several other shadowy figures are named as having played important roles in the development of music in the early Archaic period. The creation of aulodic as opposed to auletic nomoi was credited to one Klonas, thought to stand chronologically between Terpander and Archilochus. Arcadians claimed he was an Arcadian, Boeotians claimed he was a Boeotian; the inference is that his name was associated with traditional aulos music in both areas. More specifically, he is linked with processionals, with hexameter and elegiac verse, and with the nomoi called Apothetos and Schoinion.19 |
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The Troezenians claimed that aulody was established earlier by Ardalos of Troezen. Plutarch distinguishes this aulode Ardalos from a more ancient Ardalos who inaugurated the Troezenian cult of the 'Ardalid Muses'; but they may originally have been identical. According to Pausanias Ardalos was a son of Hephaestus, and invented the aulos itself. He seems to be a mythical, not a historical personage.20 |
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18 Cf. pp. 164 n. 9, 173f., 229. |
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19 Ps.-Plut. De mus. 1132c (= Heraclid. Pont. fr. 157), 1133a, Poll. 4. 79. |
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20 Ps.-Plut. De mus. 1133a, Pliny, HN 7. 204; Plut. Conv. sept. sap. 150a; Paus. 2. 31. 3. |
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