Missing Illustration - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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Missing Illustration
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Plutarch stated in Moralia: “The Chaldeans say that Spring stands to Autumn in the relation of a Fourth, to Winter in the relation of a Fifth, and to Summer in the relation of an Octave.” [Omitted text: [Reproduce his diagram.]] And Curt Sachs also pointed out that “the ancient Chinese also viewed the Spring as distant from the Autumn by a Fourth and from the Winter by Fifth.”[1] But they viewed the spring as distant from the summer by a second, not by an octave as the Babylonians did.
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- ↑ Curt Sachs, The Rise of Music in the Ancient World: East and West (New York: 1943).
