Aristides Quintilianus was the author of an ancient treatise on music, who lived probably in the third century AD. Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music MusicNovatory: the science of music encyclopedia Science of Music... // Events The Sassanid dynasty of Persia launches a war to reconquer lost lands in the Roman east. ...
According to Meibomius, in whose collection (Antiq. Musicae Auc. Septem, 52) this work is printed, it contains everything on music that is be found in antiquity. (See Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyc. ii. 894.) Pauly-Wissowa is the name commonly used for the Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, 1894ff, a German encyclopedia of classical scholarship. ...
In pursuance of a conservative policy which aimed at maintaining Athens as a land power, he was one of the chief opponents of the naval policy of Themistocles.
The conflict between the two leaders ended in the ostracism of Aristides, at a date variously given between 485 and 482.
Early in 480 Aristides profited by the decree recalling exiles to help in the defence of Athens against Persian invaders, and was elected strategos for the year 480–479.
AristidesQuintilianus referred to the salpinx as "a warlike and terrifying instrument." Aristides further stated that "among the wind instruments, one would declare the salpinx masculine because it is vehement..." The percussion instruments were numerous and could include tambourines (tympana), castanets/rattles (krotola), and cymbals (kymbala).
AristidesQuintilianus characterizes some of the stringed instruments according to gender, as he did with the wind instruments.
It is not surprising that Aristides characterizes as feminine the ignoble string instruments that were associated with symposia and the komoi.
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