Microtonal Timothius

Thanks, Monzo, for detecting the Boethius reprinting of the Lacedaemonian
decree of expellsion for Timothius of Milesia, in both Greek and Latin.

"Since Timothius of Milesia, coming into our ancient city, forsaking the
character of the city, cast aspersions on the seven-stringed kithara, and,
introducing a modulation of many strings, ruined the hearing of youths; and
he abused our own way, having been simple and orderly; for he begot many
strings and a new type of modulation, consisting of the chromatic genus which
is more effeminate, creating a great revolutionary division on behealf of the
enharmonic genus; thus he was called into the Eleusian Assembly which
publicly pronounced him a disgrace to his mother because of his division; for
dogma did not teach the new strings he created: because of such reasons the
rulers and orators reproached Timotheus. And moreover, having abandoned the
seven-stringed kithara, he added an eleventh string, thus promulgating
excesses. One grave citizen, upon seeing this, feared to disclose anything
of such inharmonious extensions in Sparta, lest perchance it alarm a great
controversy."

If I were to identify with and imagine myself as approaching a modern-day
Timothius (albeit on bassoon), there are some - even on this list - that
would exile this poor New Yorker.

Johnny Reinhard
AFMM