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Music and Metre - Émile Martin: (I) Trois documents de musique grecque. Pp. 78; 2 plates. (2) Essai sur les rythmes de la chanson grecque antique. Pp. viii+365. Paris: Klincksieck, 1953. Paper, 800 fr., 1, 600 fr.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2009

R. P. Winnington-Ingram
Affiliation:
King's College, London.

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page 83 note 1 So does an Oslo papyrus which will shortly be published.

page 84 note 1 The position of these dots to the right of notes is most plausibly explained by the shape of the letters concerned.

page 84 note 2 Evidently the first to be written: it is re-ferred to in the other under the title ‘L'evolution des rythmes dans la lyrique grecque monodique’—a title which is perhaps a more accurate description of the scope of the work.

page 85 note 1 Fr. Martin offers a transcription of a ‘spondaic’ iambic trimeter in 9/8 time, in which the ‘irrationals’ are represented by , longer than the following longs, three times as long as the shorts whose place they take.

page 85 note 2 Cf. Georgiades, T., Der griechische Rhythmus (discussed in J.H.S. Ixx. 82 f.)Google Scholar.