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musica can be read as a history of oral tradition of Ancient Greek Music. The history of Ancient Greek music from Homer to the late 5th Century is musical history without musical notation. Oral transmission never theless handed down famous melodies over centuries. Therefore, even late
Therefore, it analyses the musical repertoire of work songs, and the related iconography of the vintage or bread-kneading. Furthermore, it looks for the cultural explanations formulated in Antiquity for the presence of aulos-music in sporting competition and military activities.
This book explores various aspects of the reception of Greek antiquity in music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The impact of Greek antiquity on modern culture is hardly uncharted territory; yet, at the same time, the ways in which ancient Greek culture and history have inspired the modern world seem limitless.
Ethnographic analogies and critical theories confirm that the classical music historical concept of ‘ancient Greek music’ carries with it important modern and ethnocentric assumptions and limitations.
THE NOTATION. Greek notation was based on letters or letter-like signs, each one designat-ing a certain functional position within a network of musical scales.
ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC. A NEW TECHNICAL HISTORY. This book endeavours to pinpoint the relations between musical, and especially instrumen-tal, practice and the evolving conceptions of pitch systems.
14 sty 2021 · In this perfectly pitched introduction, Spencer Klavan explores Greek music's origins, forms, and place in society. In recent years, state-of-the-art research and digital technology have...
