The musical system of ancient Greece evolved over a period of more than 500 years from simple scales of tetrachords, or divisions of the perfect fourth...
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This played an integral role in the lives of ancient Greeks. There are some fragments of actual Greek musical notation, many literary references, depictions...
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block of modern musical notation symbols Byzantine Musical Symbols, a Unicode block of Byzantine era musical notation symbols Ancient Greek Musical Notation...
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in Ancient Greece Music in ancient Greece Musical system of ancient Greece Sculpture in ancient Greece Theatre of ancient Greece Roman art Ancient Roman...
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overview of and topical guide to ancient Greece: Ancient Greece – Towns of ancient Greece List of ancient Greek cities Regions of ancient Greece Peloponnese...
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Greek medicine Ancient Greek mercenaries Ancient Greek military personal equipment Ancient Greek Musical Notation Ancient Greek nouns Ancient Greek novel...
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Hellenistic period of Ancient Greece, education in a gymnasium school was considered essential for participation in Greek culture. The value of physical education...
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Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th...
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Haliacmon and lower Axios in the northeastern part of mainland Greece. Essentially an ancient Greek people, they gradually expanded from their homeland...
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Ancient music refers to the musical cultures and practices that developed in the literate civilizations of the ancient world, succeeding the music of...
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Genus (music) (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
In the musical system of ancient Greece, genus (Greek: γένος [genos], pl. γένη [genē], Latin: genus, pl. genera "type, kind") is a term used to describe...
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Greek musical instruments were grouped under the general term "all developments from the original construction of a tortoise shell with two branching...
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sculpture of ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek...
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Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and...
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of Macedon united most of present-day Greece in the fourth century BC, with his son Alexander the Great rapidly conquering much of the known ancient world...
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influence of ancient Greece refers to the influence of Ancient Greece on later periods of history, from the Middle Ages up to the current modern era. Greek culture...
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their pursuit of order and proportion, the Greeks created an ideal of beauty that strongly influenced Western art. The first great ancient Greek civilization...
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Octave species (category Music of Greece)
In the musical system of ancient Greece, an octave species (εἶδος τοῦ διὰ πασῶν, or σχῆμα τοῦ διὰ πασῶν) is a specific sequence of intervals within an...
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The history of ancient Greek coinage can be divided (along with most other Greek art forms) into four periods: the Archaic, the Classical, the Hellenistic...
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phrasing Musical prefix Musical semantics Musical setting Musical similarity Musical syntax Musical system of ancient Greece Musical technique Musical tone...
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Mode (music) (redirect from Properties of musical modes)
extended the concept of mode to earlier musical systems, such as those of Ancient Greek music, Jewish cantillation, and the Byzantine system of octoechoi, as...
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Games, Western philosophy, ancient Greek law, Greek mythology, Greek food and the Greek Alphabet. The following is a list of inventions, innovations or...
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durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (over 100,000 painted vases are recorded...
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The prizes for the victors were wreaths of laurel leaves. Other important sporting events in ancient Greece included the Isthmian Games, the Nemean Games...
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Education in Greece is centralized and governed by the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs, and Sports (Greek: Υπουργείο Παιδείας, Θρησκευμάτων και...
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characteristics of ancient and modern-day women in Greece evolved from events that occurred in Greek history. In Michael Scott's article, "The Rise of Women in...
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underlying Ancient Greek etymology. Monotonic orthography (from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) 'single' and τόνος (tónos) 'accent') is the standard system for Modern...
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Ancient Greek in classical antiquity, before the development of the common Koine Greek of the Hellenistic period, was divided into several varieties....
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a common aspect of ancient Greece. In the more important cities, and particularly the many ports, it employed a significant number of people and represented...
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Ancient Greek folklore includes genres such as mythology (Greek mythology), legend, and folktales. According to classicist William Hansen: "the Greeks...
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