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66:). It treats, therefore, in fact, of only one (the fifth, namely) of the seven branches into which the subject is, as usual, divided in the introduction; and may possibly be merely a fragment of a larger work. It would have been most valuable if any considerable number of examples had been left us of the actual use of the system of notation described in it; unfortunately very few remain, and they seem to belong to an earlier stage of the science. However, Alypius's work remains the best source of modern knowledge of the musical notes of the 432: 53:
The work of Alypius consists wholly, with the exception of a short introduction, of lists of the symbols used (both for voice and instrument) to denote all the sounds in the forty-five scales produced by taking each of the fifteen modes in the three genera
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There are no tolerably sure grounds for identifying Alypius with any one of the various persons who bore the name in the times of the later emperors, and of whose history anything is known.
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Translation of this book into Modern Greek, along with comments and explanation notes, by Athanasios G. Siamakis, Archimandritis, published by Prespes 2003, second edition. pages 140.
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called "Alypius Antiochensis", who was employed by the emperor Julian in his attempt to rebuild the Jewish temple. Julian addresses two epistles (29 and 30) to Alypius (
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places him towards the end of the 4th century. According to the most plausible conjecture, he was that Alypius whom the writer
520: 441: 233: 530: 204: 347: 243: 126: 161:), in one of which he thanks him for a geographical treatise or chart; it would seem more likely that this was 471: 272: 225: 151:, and died there at an advanced age, and therefore can hardly have been the person whom the Roman historian 75: 143:) and diminutive stature, and who, being a friend of Iamblichus, probably flourished under the emperor 379: 152: 330: 455: 391: 144: 466: 162: 483: 479: 86: 85:
The text, which seemed hopelessly corrupt to its first contemporary editor, classical scholar
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and his immediate successors, that is, during the 4th century. This Alypius was a native of
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Iamblichus wrote a life of the Alexandrian Alypius, although it is no longer extant.
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Aristoxenus, Nicomachus, Alypius, ed. Joh. Meursius, Lugd. Bat. 1616.
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Antiquae Musicae Auctores Septem, ed. Marc. Meibomius, Amstel. 1652
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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Alexandria
Greek
diatonic
chromatic
enharmonic
Greeks
scales
transpositions
musical notation
Johannes Meursius
Marcus Meibomius
notation
Joseph Scaliger
Karl von Jan
Jean-Benjamin de la Borde
Eunapius
Julian the Apostate
Alexandria
Ammianus Marcellinus
Alypius of Antioch
Meursius
Mathiesen 2016
Alypius
Archived
Wayback Machine
Donkin, William Fishburn
"Alypius"
William Smith
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
Little, Brown and Company

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