Schlesinger harmoniai

(Greek; plural: "harmoniai")

Speculated by Kathleen Schlesinger in The Greek Aulos (1939), according to her these are the basic scales of the ancient Greek wind instruments. Each harmonia is a segment of a different subharmonic series.

Her work has subsequently been discredited, but her theories remain provocative and provide resources for future exploration.

see also harmonia



[from John Chalmers, Divisions of the Tetrachord]
with additions by Joe Monzo

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