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Ethos (/ ˈ iː θ ɒ s / or US: / ˈ iː θ oʊ s /) is a Greek word meaning 'character' that is used to describe the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize a community, nation, or ideology; and the balance between caution and passion. [1] The Greeks also used this word to refer to the power of music to influence emotions, behaviors, and ...
Other words commonly translated as 'music' often have more specific meanings in their respective cultures: the Hindi word for music, sangita, properly refers to art music, [19] while the many Indigenous languages of the Americas have words for music that refer specifically to song but describe instrumental music regardless. [20]
"But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."
A duple-pulse rhythmic cell in Cuban and other Latin American music trill A rapid, usually unmeasured alternation between two harmonically adjacent notes (e.g. an interval of a semitone or a whole tone). A similar alternation using a wider interval is called a tremolo. triplet (shown with a horizontal bracket and a '3')
The Power and Value of Music. Its Effect and Ethos in Classical Authors and Contemporary Music Theory. New York/Bern: Peter Lang Publishing. ISBN 9781433133787. Landels, John G. (1999). Music in Ancient Greece and Rome. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-16776-0 (cloth); ISBN 0-415-24843-4 (pbk reprint, 2001). Limited preview online.
While the note names remain constant, they may refer to different scale degrees, implying different intervals with respect to the tonic. The great power of this fact is that any musical work can be played or sung in any key. It is the same piece of music, as long as the intervals are the same—thus transposing the melody into the corresponding ...
These added ideas are valuable tools to examine compositional trends in the Middle Ages, and help modern scholars determine the point of origin of the pieces, as they typically mention regional historical figures (St. Saturnin of Toulouse, for example, would appear in tropes composed in Southern France).
The basis of the word παιάν is * παιάϝων." [2] Its ultimate etymology is unclear. R. S. P. Beekes has suggested the meaning "who heals illnesses through magic", from * παῖϝα / * παϝία "blow", related to παίω "beat" (from Proto-Indo-European *ph 2 u-ie/o-) or παύω "withhold" (of uncertain etymology).