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How did ancient Greek music sound?
BBC News ^
| 10-22-2013
| Armand D'Angour
Posted on 10/25/2013 4:35:55 AM PDT by Renfield
The music of ancient Greece, unheard for thousands of years, is being brought back to life by Armand D'Angour, a musician and tutor in classics at Oxford University. He describes what his research is discovering.
"Suppose that 2,500 years from now all that survived of the Beatles songs were a few of the lyrics, and all that remained of Mozart and Verdi's operas were the words and not the music.
Imagine if we could then reconstruct the music, rediscover the instruments that played them, and hear the words once again in their proper setting, how exciting that would be.
This is about to happen with the classic texts of ancient Greece....
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: History; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: armanddangour; godsgravesglyphs; greece; history; music
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To: Renfield
Fascinating stuff. I enjoyed hearing the professor’s audio file.
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posted on
10/27/2013 3:22:26 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Let me hear what God the LORD will speak. -Ps85)
To: Renfield
To: Renfield
I've often wondered if some ancient sounds could have been captured in pottery. Could voice vibrations/etc from the potters have been captured in the wet clay...like the grooves on a vinyl record?
They would have been seriously crude but....with today's technology?
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10/27/2013 7:50:12 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Renfield
How did ancient Greek music sound?
Hmmm?..I don't know.
But if it can't be played on one of these.....
I don't care.Fender Stratocaster©. If they're good enough for Eric Clapton, they're good enough for me ;-)
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10/27/2013 10:41:55 AM PDT
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Condor51
(Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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