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I devised these mnemonics for my teaching of Greek metre and its Latin counterparts to students at Oxford since 1998. My aim is twofold: 1) that the mnemonics should represent the Greek quantities (long or short durations) accurately in rhythmical form, using the natural stresses of English to coincide with long and short syllables,
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The prologue is spoken in iambic trimeters, lines of 12 syllables whose obvious counterpart in English is our blank verse of ten or eleven syllables. The bulk of the play is written in these trimeters; it is the normal metre for all solo actors in any play.
This chapter is designed to describe the most important types of metre used in Greek lyric, showing their interaction and their development. The presentation is meant to be accessible even to students with no prior knowledge of Greek metre.
Introduction to Greek Meter. William S. Annis Aoidoi.org∗. January 2006. The study of Greek meter exercises a great power of seduction over some scholars. You can find recently published books on this topic which will devote an entire page to a schematic rendering of some tricky bit of Pindar.
Greek melodies are expressive and easy/enjoyable to sing. Greek melodies are normally harmonised in thirds. If you are asked to describe the melody in Greek music, make sure you say it is harmonised in thirds! Rhythm and Metre. Greek music uses complex and irregular time signatures. Examples of Greek time signatures are 5/8 and 7/8.
Greek and Latin metre is an overall term used for the various rhythms in which Greek and Latin poems were composed. The individual rhythmical patterns used in Greek and Latin poetry are also known as "metres" (US "meters").
Rhythm was a very important element of ancient Greek music firstly because much of the music was connected to dance and secondly because it was connected to poetic texts and meters. Ancient Greeks believed that melody without rhythm is "disordered, inert and dark" while it was "vigorous, energetic and precise" when rhythm was added.
