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The music and music theory of ancient Greece laid the foundation for western music and western music theory, as it would go on to influence the ancient Romans, the early Christian church and the medieval composers.
There are said to be two musical movements in Greek folk music (παραδοσιακή μουσική): Acritic songs and Klephtic songs. Akritic music comes from the 9th century akrites, or border guards of the Byzantine Empire.
5 sty 2013 · Music (or mousike) was an integral part of life in the ancient Greek world, and the term covered not only music but also dance, lyrics, and the performance of poetry. A wide range of instruments was used to perform music which was played on all manner of occasions such as religious ceremonies, festivals, private drinking parties (symposia), ...
Music was essential to the pattern and texture of Greek life, as it was an important feature of religious festivals, marriage and funeral rites, and banquet gatherings. Our knowledge of ancient Greek music comes from actual fragments of musical scores, literary references, and the remains of musical instruments.
G reek music, or rather the wider Greek notion of mousikē (sc. tekhnē ‘the Art of the Muses’: cf. Murray and Wilson 2004), was a central aspect of Hellenic culture and identity. With this term the Greeks embraced the entire field of poetic performance, including lyrics and dance as well as music.
In the Hellenistic years, musical festivities and contests became common and musicians began to organize themselves into associations (Koina). According to Plato, the first school of musical education was founded from the people of Crete followed by the music schools of Athens, where students were taught to sing and play the lyre.
cient Greek music was perfectly possible without resort to notation. It was not until late antiquity that the note signs found their way into handbooks on music of Aristoxenian hue; writers with philosophical pretensions such as Ptolemy would not use note signs even then. And indeed in many cases
