Unlocking the Riddles of Classical Greek Melodies I: Dorian Keys to the Harmonic Revolution of the New Music and the Hellenistic Musical Documents

Abstract Bringing together evidence preserved by Aristoxenus, Aristides Quintilianus, Ptolemy, Porphyry and the Greek musical handbooks in a unified framework, this article its sequels show how reconstruction of Classical modulation system offered Lynch 2018 is confirmed melodies recorded documents. Taken jointly, these articles offer first comprehensive account use notation tónoi ancient documents that fully consistent with extant technical on harmonic theory literary testimonies about innovations introduced New Musicians. The present focuses Classical/Hellenistic system, whereas Imperial counterpart will be discussed forthcoming 1 2. These theoretical analyses are based upon newly developed database ( dDAGM ) collects all notes attested standard edition fragments DAGM ), comprising over 3,500 notes.