{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2135.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2135.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2135.tlg001.local001","title":"Isagoge musica","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Alypius","authorityName":"ALYPIUS Mus.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2135-alypius-mus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2135-alypius-mus/","editors":["Karl von Jan"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"Musici scriptores Graeci","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1895","volume":null,"series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Harvard College Library","sponsors":[],"funders":["Harvard Library Arcadia Fund"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig) 2015 - 2017","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/musiciscriptore00jangoog/page/n464/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Alypius. Isagoge musica. ed. Karl von Jan. Musici scriptores Graeci, Leipzig, Teubner, 1895. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2135.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Τῆς μουσικῆς ἐκ τριῶν τῶν συνεκτικωτάτων ἐπιστημῶν τελειουμένης, ἁρμονικῆς ῥυθμικῆς μετρικῆς, πρώτην τε τάξει καὶ στοιχειωδεστάτην νοητέον τὴν περὶ τὸ ἡρμοσμένον πραγματείαν. αὕτη δὲ ἁρμονικὴ καλεῖται δια κριτικὴν τινα δύναμιν ἔχουσα καὶ καταληπτικὴν τῶν ἐμμελῶν καὶ διαστηματικῶν φθόγγων καὶ τῶν ἐν αὐτοῖς γινομένων διαφορῶν. 2. Ἀναστρέφεται δὲ μάλιστα καὶ θεωρεῖται περὶ τὸ ἡρμοσμένον τῆς μουσικῆς μέρος. οὗ μέρη ἑπτά· πρῶτον περὶ φθόγγων, δεύτερον περὶ διαστημάτων, τρίτον περὶ συστημάτων, τέταρτον περὶ γενῶν, πέμπτον περὶ τόνων, ἕκτον περὶ μεταβολῶν, ἕβδομον περὶ αὐτῆς τῆς μελοποιίας. 3. Οὕτω δὲ τεταγμένων τούτων (p. 2) εὐχρηστὸν ἐστιν ἡμῖν ἄμα δὲ καὶ ἀναγκαῖον διδασκαλικώτερον ἀρχομένοις τῆς ἁρμονικῆς στοιχειώσεως τὴν παράδοσιν ποιεῖσθαι καὶ πρὸ πάντων αὐτὴν διελεῖν εἰς τοὺς λεγομένους τρόπους τε καὶ τόνους, ὄντας πεντεκαίδεκα τὸν ἀριθμόν. ὧν ἐστι πρῶτος ὁ λύδιος. λυδίου τρόπου σημεῖα,…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2135.tlg001.local001/#tlg2135-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2135.tlg001.local001/#tlg2135-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2135.tlg001.local001/#tlg2135-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2135.tlg001.local001/#tlg2135-tlg001-local001-4"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2135.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2135.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2135/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}