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Dec 31, 2011 · The Ultimate Guide to Greek Music. It’s only natural that a small nation of some 11 million people with a cultural heritage dating back some 3,500 years and a – turbulent to say the least – modern history can speak of a musical legacy so diverse. Much like the passions of a people, so too, music is a truthful reflection of a particular ...
The fact that τόνος itself has at least four distinct meanings in Greek theory of music contributes to the uncertainty of the exact meaning and derivation of διατονικός, even among ancient writers: τόνος may refer to a pitch, an interval, a "key" or register of the voice, or a mode.
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Jul 31, 2018 · Ancient Greek music performed. The earliest substantial musical document, found in 1892, preserves part of a chorus from the Athenian tragedian Euripides’ Orestes of 408BC. It has long posed ...
Aug 19, 2016 · The dynamic Greek sound, characterized by the dynamic bouzouki notes and the unusual rhythms of Greece, soon charmed lovers of traditional music. And though the bouzouki was, and still is, the main lead instrument of the rebetika and laika (folk) songs, it was quickly used in a variety of musical genres throughout the world, including jazz ...
Jul 31, 2018 · Ancient Greek music performed. The earliest substantial musical document, found in 1892, preserves part of a chorus from the Athenian tragedian Euripides' Orestes of 408BC. It has long posed ...
Aug 8, 2019 · Abstract. Virtually all theater in the Greco-Roman world was musical theater. Iambic trimeters were almost always spoken without accompaniment, but other meters were almost always sung or chanted to the accompaniment of the aulos. We can therefore tell from the texts of ancient plays when actors sang or chanted and when they spoke without ...
This work, a collection of fifteen topical essays on ancient Greek and medieval Latin music theory, presents historical background and technical explanations explicitly intended to help readers, especially graduate students, seeking competence in the history of theory. Not a textbook, the work cannot claim to cover the field comprehensively.
