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=== Modern compositions using Ancient Greek tuning === | === Modern compositions using Ancient Greek tuning === | ||
; [[Max Brumberg]] | |||
* [https://youtube.com/watch?v=aI7YwJ1jBhY Aulos from ancient Greek and Roman times music] (2019) | |||
; [[Farya Faraji]] | |||
* [https://youtube.com/watch?v=5thTYGirisQ In Numa's Time - Ancient Roman Song] (2023)<ref>Though the lyrics are in Latin, the tuning is late Ancient Greek enharmonic.</ref> | |||
; [[Michael Levy]] | ; [[Michael Levy]] | ||
* [https://youtube.com/watch?v=sFdndehhUgs The Discord of Eris (Microtonal Improvisation for Ancient Greek Tortoise Shell Lyre)] (2022) | * [https://youtube.com/watch?v=sFdndehhUgs The Discord of Eris (Microtonal Improvisation for Ancient Greek Tortoise Shell Lyre)] (2022) | ||
Revision as of 09:30, 17 November 2024
The musical system of Ancient Greece evolved over a period of more than 500 years from simple scales of tetrachords, or divisions of the perfect fourth, into several complex systems encompassing tetrachords and octaves, as well as octave scales divided into seven to thirteen intervals.[1]
Any discussion of the music of Ancient Greece, theoretical, philosophical or aesthetic, is fraught with two problems:
- There are few examples of written music
- There are many competing, sometimes fragmentary, theoretical and philosophical accounts.
See the Wikipedia page in the top right for a thorough coverage of these accounts.
Music
Examples of Ancient Greek music
Modern compositions using Ancient Greek tuning
- The Discord of Eris (Microtonal Improvisation for Ancient Greek Tortoise Shell Lyre) (2022)
- Microtonal Music for Lyre (Etude in the Archytas Enharmonic Genus) (2016)
Resources
- Divisions of the Tetrachord - John H. Chalmers (1993)
- Ancient Greek Music: A New Technical History - Stefan Hagel (2010)