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Music in Ancient Greece and Rome eBooks
by John G. Landels
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Music in Ancient Greece and Rome Summary
| Music in Ancient Greece and Rome presents a comprehensive introduction to the study of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Hadrian, presented in concise and user-friendly chapters, with suggestions for further reading and illustrated with diagrams. Chapters include: * an exploration of the contexts in which music played a role, including genres of poetry regarded as musical by the ancient Greeks * a detailed discussion of instruments, including the aulos, the kithara and the lyre * an analysis of scales, intervals and tuning, incorporating a discussion on the evidence for scales and the concepts of species and key * an examination of the principal types of rhythm used in the musical sections in various literary genres * an exploration of Greek theories of harmony and acoustics, from the famous Pythagorean discovery and an account of the 1r"041 bilibus, commonly attributed to Aristotle. Music in Ancient Greece and Rome is the most comprehensive introduction available to the history, theory and practice of ancient music. |
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| "Music in Ancient Greece and Rome" is a comprehensive introduction to the study of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Trajan. John G. Landels offers the first scholarly overview of the practical and performance elements of music, rather than the moral and aesthetic discussion typified by the works of Plato. Illustrated with transcriptions of surviving musical scores, diagrams and line-drawings of instruments and performers, the book explores the contexts in which music played a role, such as mythology and poetry. Detailed discussion is also given to the instruments, including the aulos, the kithara and the lyre, as well as the ingenious notation system devised by the Greeks which enables us to read the few surviving scores. |
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