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| | Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 777 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09) |
 | | The difference of species; considered as the characteristic distinction of modes, is evidently spoken of as a thing antiquated and obsolete, not only by Aristides (who «\vas certainly later than Cicero, see p. |
 | | It seems likely that the ancient modes mentioned by Euclid, and described above, consisting of octachords taken, as regards their speeies^ from different parts of the (ruo-T-fyua a/xeragoAoj/, would, as regards pitch, be each so placed as to lie between uttcct?] jueVcoi/ and v^Ti] $ie££vyp.£Vmode of the same name. |
 | | The only important results, however, are, first, that the modes did anciently differ in species; secondly, that in process of time this difference either disappeared entirely, or ceased to be their distinguishing mark ; and, thirdly, that their general pitch was always different. |
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