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Music was almost universally present in ancient Greek society, from marriages, funerals, and religious ceremonies to theatre, folk music, and the ballad-like reciting of epic poetry. This played an integral role in the lives of ancient Greeks.
In Athens during the second half of the fifth century B.C., the Odeion (roofed concert hall) of Perikles was erected on the south slope of the Athenian akropolis—physical testimony to the importance of music in Athenian culture.
This study combines two elements related to music in ancient Greece: musicians and musical instruments of Classical Greece. The main research questions answered in this study are: "What were the musicians of Classical Greece?"
Conclusions It is clear that musical behaviours did not suddenly disappear from use in European human society at the start of the Holocene. There are several examples of soundproducers dated to the late Palaeolithic or early Mesolithic, and other examples from throughout the Mesolithic period.
The Upper Palaeolithic in Europe sees the first incontrovertible archaeological evidence for musical behaviour in humans, in the form of bone items which have been variously interpreted as flutes, pipes or whistles.
The musical system of ancient Greece evolved over a period of more than 500 years from simple scales of tetrachords, or divisions of the perfect fourth, into several complex systems encompassing tetrachords and octaves, as well as octave scales divided into seven to thirteen intervals.
5 sty 2013 · There is evidence that the Greeks began to study music theory as early as the 6th century BCE. This consisted of harmonic, acoustic, scalar, and melody studies. The earliest surviving (but fragmentary) text on the subject is the Harmonic Elements by Aristoxenos, written in the 4th century BCE.
