Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-10-15

: EXCERPT FROM
STUDIO LECTURE
Is, 4. Il, WENr~"grH L"ro~ ,

When Ne consider the master
Woiks Ut the rnIl! Greek s%culp'orS
AND painters ~"tAs which have
h.tn accepted models Tor all later
Civilizations we should nnt be suf-
prtsed 10 learn that our scale was de-
rived from anclent Greece. and that
even the word Music GENES from
the f:rt.k mOusike. from nl0usa.
muse. Yuu mas recall that Homer.
the old Greek poet. sueahS OF IN"
muses. as the guldrsseS Of song who
d~rit upon the summit Ut Mount
CN> mp,,x. Thehr goddcks.s. fairies.
ur MUSES. were supposed /" tnspir"
III" ancient Gre~'k musicians with IN"
pnW,r I" cnn,pa,s.. music, sing II or
pia& IL ulnpu the Tyre - harp iik" IN
>rtuuput originally az but -four
>t,iner One would not cNpeFt I"
s,i .rrs much music from u "F
a.. ~ small range instruments. hut
"A, The music al tn" ancient Greeks
MAS IAfStit ~ NV Ihta1t''H ~" ~
listed a. "a soUt q: an accompaniment
Ia their llA>x and Ia the r"cstang "f
their n,cmS, this pecmtiar looking Ut
H.. harm was really quite suitable.
For instance. these four strings re-
presented III. tones {. +. q. {. when
are the imInrtant intcTValc m deCla'
Th... xHh.AkK MEN fnfkaFFnR1s
tIon IL made IN" voice rises "a fourth
from 4 to f To emphasize a Murd
II ris, : another tone and goes 10 the
fifth u;i. while In the ending "t a
, stor, II falls a fifth. etc And thlS'
, quite probably Is the way the tlrst
! notes ~ the early Greek scale came
To be- adopted. doubtless h I'M
mortal Homer accompanied himself
ON one al these old time harps g
he chanted his wonderful poems az
was the custom Of the ancient bards'
As the centuries rolled on music he'
gan tn play a more and more INT
: ,ortant mart In the life ot the Greeks
their famous philosophers and
mathcmaticians making IA deep study
of the subject. T~crpandcr. one oil
thc>e famous men, adding h r. 10
the scale. the y having already bee
sunplI.d hy a former musician. But
III. scale "A still incomplete and II
remained for the great philosopher
-,tl.r,ntIcfu0 D~N4hNulfAS
,abnut $50 n. c.. To finish 1t by adj
ding the II. the last round In the tone
ladder for that IL the meaning q
the word scale. a word derived from
scala. the Italian for ladder. And be
caus,. of ~Pythagoras' great service
tn Greek music. art In compietlne
the scale land also by virtue Of I'M
fact that he had also created th'
system Of ratios which notes bea1
10 each other. and formulated "the'
imrortani and advanced principles q
musical ScicnceN. the new mode "a'
named the p"ythagor"an / honor @
the great Grerian. The Pythagoreat
scale passed ltolh "'''' '"' '
and later waA diffused Throughout
the continent. Great Britain n Am
erica. aud this samc Pythagor"at
scale (which II also called Iohic
because largely used by the TonIanS
, one of the foremost and anCieh
tribes of Greece, IL our W maJo
scale ur today G.. y. T. F, G, A. u. {
Dut we are also indebted TO Greece
for one of our minor scales \. b. I
D. r. r. sharp. G. sharp, A. "a ana I
sharpS made "natural' when DE-
~scendiugl which has also come dow
10 us In the same as the ma
iur This ancient minor scale va
called the Acolian. "" use this mir
or mode a great deal today. Int th'
most modern minor mode Is formed
bv the interval Of a step and "a half
bet wrpn tn" sixth and seventh DC
grccs A. n. {. u. F.. F, & sharp. a
both ascending and descending. I'M
latter form of minor mode We t"ri
] IN. harmonic. the former the mclod
ic In The wealth Of modern mas
, ter works Of the art beautiful, q
Recthovcn'S divine symphonies AN
I Wapnrr'S conSumat" musicdram'
: t. Is well some times to pause mn
give old Greco" credit for suppl\in
MS with the scale which has mad" a
this uoSsible.
Eir,re with Patty on LAYING watt