LIFE OF OLYMPUS

nome, as it is called. is reputed the work of the

first Olympus, the pupil of Marsyas .. . and this
view is supported by Glancus in his Account af the
Ancient Poets... . Tt is held, however, by some

writers that the TTannatian nome was a Mysian
invention, Mysia having produced flute-players in
ancient times.

Plutarch On Musie: According to Aristoxenus,
musicians ascribe the invention of the Fnharmonic
scale (REP ABB’CE) ! to Olympus. Before his time
the only seales had been the Diatonie and the
Chromatic. The invention is supposed to have come
about thus: In descending in the — νς seale his
melody frequently passed from B or from A to F,
omitting G. Realising the beater of this effect,
Olympus in his astonishment accepted the principle
for the whole system, and eomposed in it in the
Dorian ‘mode.’ rejecting all intervals peculiar to the
Diatonic or Chromatic scales and concerning himself
directly with the mode. Such was the origin of his
Enharmonic seale... . It is clear that Olympus
made a real advance in’ music by introducing an
entire novelty, and was the father of good music in
Greece.

The Same: We are told by Aristoxenus in the first
Book of his Treatise on Music that the first flute-plaver
to use the Lydian mode was Olympus in his Lament
for the serpent Python.

The Same: The Olympus who is reputed the
oviginator of art-music in Greece, is considered to

1 the dash indicates a quarter-tone