Question about Intervals

[PLX]

I borrowed it from Aelred of Rievaulx. I like Ale and I like to read. A lot.

 

[Sascha Franck]

So...

We NEED to talk about triads! <- CLICK!

(sorry for the shameless plug, but I mentioned it in this thread and some of it might be along similar lines)

 

[Aelred]

So...

We NEED to talk about triads! <- CLICK!

(sorry for the shameless plug, but I mentioned it in this thread and some of it might be along similar lines)

Cool looking thread. Some of it I may ever learn from!

I can't find a Loeb edition of the Manual of Harmonics by Nichomachus of Gerasa, and only his Pythagorean Arithmetic is available in Greek from 1923. Of course, Greek arithmetic was Gematria (apologies to Slipknot). They didn’t have numbers, so they used letters (gematria). Zeus = the square root of Hermes times Apollo (rounded to a whole “number”) is arithmetically correct. Apollo = 1061, Hermes = 353, Zeus = 612.

I do have a copy of Sextus Empiricus' Against Music (Pros Mousikous) and Against Logic (Pros Logikous).

Some people read music and have since high school. I read Greek and it was a compulsory subject, not optional, in high school.

I wonder what Nichomachus the Pythagorean had to say about intervals and triads...