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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.
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.
Although the ancient Greeks were familiar with many kinds of instruments, three in particular were favored for composition and performance: the kithara, a plucked string instrument; the lyre, also a string instrument; and the aulos, a double-reed instrument.
5 sty 2013 · In Greek mythology the Muses personified the various elements of music (in the wide Greek sense of the term) and were said to entertain the gods on Mt. Olympus with their divine music, dancing, and singing.
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.
1 sty 2008 · (PDF) Boshnakova, A. 2008 Reading Ancient Greek Music in Documents, Images and Artifacts: on the Practical Application of Musical Archeology. In: E. Hickmann/R. Eichmann/L. Koch/A. Both...
The musical instruments of ancient Greeks consisted of strings, wind and percussion. The most significant instruments are: STRINGS These instruments had strings which were usually equal in length and unequal in width. They were either played directly with the fingers or with a pletrum. Lyre: The most common of the musical instruments,
