Music in Ancient Greece and Rome

by: Landels, J.G.

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 Music in ancient Greece and Rome

Author: John G. Landels

Summary:This volume presents an introduction to the study of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Trajan. 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 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 De Audibilibus, commonly attributed to Aristotle

xii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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.

Contents:
Music in Greek life, poetry and drama
The aulos
Kithara and lyre
Other instruments
Scales, intervals and tuning
Music, words and rhythm
Music and acoustical science
Music and myth
The years between : Alexandria and southern Italy
The Roman musical experience
Notation and pitch
Some surviving scores
Appendix 1. Technical analysis of Greek intervals
Appendix 2. The construction of the water-organ (hydraulis)
Appendix 3. The Brauron aulos

Music in Ancient Greece and Rome

by: Landels, J.G.

• ISBN-13: 9780415167765 / 978-0-415-16776-5
• ISBN-03: 0415167760 / 0-415-16776-0
• Routledge, London, 2000

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