Summary

This is a diagram of some of the notes used in ancient Greek pitch notation. Only notes for one of the diatonic scales are given; most / all of the associated half-sharp / double-half-sharp versions of the pitch symbols, which aren't used simultaneously in the same diatonic scale are omitted. In the center three columns file shows approximate enharmonic modern notes (which E. Pöhlmann & M.L. West (2001) Documents of Ancient Greek Music believe are in fact a little too high / should be lower) in the first column, corresponding notes used for vocal parts in the second column, and notes used for instrumental parts in third column. Off to the right are the Greek names for individual notes and to the far right names for different subdivisions of those notes, such as various interlocking tetrachords used in ancient Greek musical analysēs. The intra-octave subdivision tetrachord synemmenón is shown on the far left as an appendage to the main diagram.

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Changes to prior version

Prior (English translated) file is shown / linked at right.

Changes are all cosmetic: Converted strange "a1" "b1" "c1" notes to standard Helmholtz "a′" "b′" "c′" etc., which seems to have been what was intended; cleaned up / slightly reformatted dot-matrix-style characters to a uniform / best-of-a-bad-lot forms ; aligned text ; changed all bracketing lines to have colors – converted column outline lines to light grey. Left marks and lines that were already colored in previous version as-is.

Graphics in this revision are only marginally better: There was no effort to replace the Greek or Latin characters with higher resolution. The whole graphic needs to be replaced with one using higher-resolution, modern Unicode Greek musical characters, at which point some nattering pest will complain about how it ought to be done as an .SVG file. (These idiots write on as if everybody should be expected to have convenient access to software that can generate an SVG file. I do not, and I'm vexed and tired of the "graphics formatting is not good enough" complaints.)

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