Music

Table of Contents

Musicians playing a water organ, pipe, & lyre.

Scale


ni (νι)	pa (πα)	bu (βου)	ga (γα)	di (δι)	ce (κε)	zo (ζο)	ni (νι)

Genera

Diatonic
Soft Chromatic
Hard Chromatic
Enharmonic

Species

Dorian
Phyrgian
Lydian
Mixolydian

Ratios

Fourth (diatessárōn)
Fifth (diapénte)
Tetrachord (tetráchordon)
Octave (diapasṓn)

Notation

𝁆 (íson) – equal
𝁇 (olígon) – ascend 1 n.
𝁑 (apóstrophos) – descend 1 n.
𝁉 (petastḗs) – ascend 1 n., stressed
𝃰 (centḗmaton) – ascend 1 n., unstressed

References

Nicomachus. Manual of Harmonics.