Chapter 3

Importance of this development--extent of the time--date of Homeric poems--epoch of Æschylus--extracts from Homer--Hesiod--patriotic applications of music--choral song--festivals--lyric drama--début of Æschylus, Sophocles and Euripides--nature of the classic drama--orchestic--Socrates--Aristoxenus--problems of Aristotle--Greek theory of music--Pythagoras and ratios of simple consonances--devotional use of music--Greek scales--Claudius Ptolemy--Didymus--the lyre and cithara--magadis--flute--æsthetic importance--Plato on the noble harmonies--loyalty to the true--Greek musical alphabet--notation--Ode from Pindar.