Musical Intonation on Wind Instruments in Antiquity

This article discusses the features of musical intonation, inherent in the ancient period of development of the musical art. This topic is relevant, because it is necessary to examine the issues related to the origination of the musical intonation. In this connection, the article considers currently used wind instruments, specifi c techniques of performance, and the methods that allowed to avoid the objective for that time contradictions in instrumental music playing and, at the same time, that were substantiating such musical directions as microtonal and ekmelic music. The article clarifi es the concept of “musike” in the interpretation of ancient Greeks, who divided the arts into musike (music, dance, poetry) and not musike (sculpture, painting). This differentiation justifi es the birth of the phenomenon of intonation, based on the temporary state that represents a harmonious unity of man and nature. The work analyses the old musical modes that initiated in ancient Greece the appearance of the paradigm of direct connection between music and human nature, named the doctrine of ethos. The comparison of intonational features of the ancient musical modes and human mental properties leads, during the further historical development of musical intonation, to the doctrine of the affections, which actively used almost all the elements that make up the language of music (tempo, rhythm, mode tonality, meter, interval, etc.) to arouse in the listeners strong emotions and passions.

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