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- Who is believed to have discovered the ratios that enabled Greek theorists to construct a scale?
- What did ancient Greece discover?
- What scale did the Greeks use?
- How did ancient Greeks notate music?
Who is believed to have discovered the ratios that enabled Greek theorists to construct a scale?
Archytas was also the first ancient Greek theorist to provide ratios for all 3 genera.
What did ancient Greece discover?
The Greeks invented the two main components of watermills, the waterwheel and toothed gearing, and some of the earliest evidence of a water-driven wheen appears in the technical treatises written by the Greek engineer Philo of Byzantium (ca. 280−220 BC).
What scale did the Greeks use?
octave species
Greek music theory, any of the various arrangements of tones (T) and semitones (S) within an octave (series of eight consecutive notes) in the scale system. The basic Greek scale ranged two octaves and was called the Greater Perfect System.
How did ancient Greeks notate music?
The music system in ancient Greece was based on the lyre because that was their main musical instrument: The names of the notes correspond to the names of the lyre's chords. ... The scales consist of two groups made up of four chords named "tetrachorda".
