BY JOHN PHILIPS, GENT.

Principles of Greek music: the tetrachord, heptachord, octachord;

scale of fifteen notes, 102, 103, _note_. History of music, 104,

_et seq._ The lyre, 105. Amphion, Linus, Anthes, Pierus, Philammon,

Thamyras, &c., 105. Terpander, an inventor, 105, 106, 109, 112, 122.

Olympus, 107, 109, 123; Hyagnis, 107; Clonas, 107. History of wind

instruments, 108; the flute, _ib._ Three musical moods,—the Dorian,

the Phrygian, the Lydian, 109. Makers of paeans, 110. The enharmonic

species of music, 110. Its relations to the diatonic and chromatic,

111. Varieties of rhythm, 112. The harp an invention of Apollo, 113.

His statue at Delos a proof of this, _ib._ Manly and grave music

used by the ancients for its worth, 114. The moderns have introduced

an inferior sort, 114. The Lydian mood, 114; the Dorian, 115. The

chromatic more ancient than the enharmonic scale, 116; though many

of the ancient musicians did not use it, 117. Plato’s remarks

on harmony, 118. Music a mathematical science, 119. Harmony as

related to the senses, 121. Why the Greeks were so careful to teach

their children music, 121. The high purposes of music, 121, 122.

Archilochus, his improvements, 122, 123. Improvements of Polymnestus,

107, 123. Improvements of Lasus, 123. Decline of the ancient music,

123-125. To learn music, philosophy is needful, 126. Music too

much a thing of chance, 126. A sound judgment is necessary, 127. A

perfect judgment of music not derived from a partial knowledge, 129.

Degeneracy of modern music, 130. Benefits of a proper acquaintance

with music, 132; facts in proof of this, 133.

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