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Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Aristoxenus's genera

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69287Complete Encyclopaedia of Music — Aristoxenus's generaJohn Weeks Moore

Aristoxenus's genera were amongst the numerous modes in which the Greek writers pretended to divide their tetrachord, or minor fourth. According to Ptolemy, Aristoxenus had six different scales, all formed by supposing the fourth divided into thirty equal parts.