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- School of Byzantine Music

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1:
Table 1: The Natural Scales of PA and NI

8
10

Conjucting Tone

Lower Tetracord

12

Least

Lesser

12

8
10

Major

Major

Least

Lesser

Upper Tetrachord

Major

10
12

Conjucting Tone

Least

Lesser

12

Lower Tetracord

Upper Tetrachord

12

10
12

Major

Major

Least

Lesser

Major

2 :
Table 2: The Natural Scales of PA and NI with a flattened ZO

12

12
8
10

Major

Major

Semitone

Major

Major

Least

Lesser

Upper Tetrachord

Conjucting Tone

12

Conjucting Tone

Lower Tetracord

12

Lower Tetracord

Upper Tetrachord

12

12
12
8
10
12

Major

Semitone

Major

Major

Least

Lesser

Major


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Martyriai
Martyriai are abbreviations that are inscribed at the beginning, the middle and the end of every musical
composition. They convey the following two peices of information:
1) The starting, middle and ending notes of every musical piece.
2) The genus of the tetracord or scale they belong to.
Diatonic tetrachords used by the atural scales of PA and NI have the following Martyriai (see Table 3).
(Table) 3:

,

Based on A of the Greek Alphabet, and
is placed under PA.

N (
),

Based on (of older tone Na-na) of the
Greek Alphabet, and is placed under GA.

(
,
),

Based on (of tone Legetos) of the
Based on of the Greek Alphabet, and
Greek Alphabet, and is placed under Bou
is placed under DI.
(Vou).
.
.
These diacritic marks are placed on notes that serve as conjunction notes that join tetrachords.
They indicate where the lowe tetrachord ends and the upper begins.