In ancient Greece, did they use the Pythagoras discovery of ratios to create tetra-chord?
To my **basic** understanding: In ancient Greek they were primarily using tetra-chords and there was three main standard divisions of these tetra-chords called genus.In the same era Pythagoras discovers the relationship between intervals and ratios, 3:2 for a perfect fifth is an example. I've also read that the ancient Greeks used Pythagoras findings to help tune the tetra-chords since they spann a perfect fourth. However it got me wondering:A) Did the ancient Greeks use **Pythagoras findings to create the tetra-chord** in the first place or did they just use it for tuning later on? B) If Pythagoras did not have anything to do with the creation of tetra-chords, then who did?
Pythagoras was the first music theorist and mathematician of the ancient classical era. The numbers we use in suspension analysis and in figured based analysis are all ratios Pythagoras and other Greek mathematicians used. They wanted to figure out the philosophy of music through logic. Pythagoras "created" the tetra-chord, but theorists did not identify them as tetra-chords till modern music terminology.
