The Sounds of Music: Modal Ethos in Problemata XIX, 48
Keywords:
Harmony, Ethos, Sounds, Ancient GreeksAbstract
The article focuses on the problem of how the Ancient Greek musical modes or harmoniai could have had the widely diverse emotional and moral effects attributed to them by ancient authors. The standard modern interpretations of the Greek modes render it impossible to take the ancient authors literally. A satisfactory solution to the problem, however, lies ready to hand in an unfairly maligned book on the modes by Kathleen Schlesinger. This article explains, with diagrams, the basics of Schlesinger’s solution and why we should take it seriously.
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