Ancient Greek music: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m Text replacement - "{{todo|Cultural expertise}}" to "{{Todo|cultural expertise}}" |
→Modern compositions using Ancient Greek tuning: Socratic Swansongs: Add name according to YouTube channel, and link there (and adjust sort order accordingly) |
||
| Line 16: | Line 16: | ||
=== Modern compositions using Ancient Greek tuning === | === Modern compositions using Ancient Greek tuning === | ||
; [https://www.youtube.com/@SocraticSwansongs John Robert Bagby] (Socratic Swansongs) | |||
* [https://youtube.com/watch?v=WkdyBnujvkY ''Eight Preludes for Piano and Sax in Ancient Greek Attunements (Harmonia)''] (2023) | |||
; [[Max Brumberg]] | ; [[Max Brumberg]] | ||
* [https://youtube.com/watch?v=aI7YwJ1jBhY ''Aulos from ancient Greek and Roman times music''] (2019) | * [https://youtube.com/watch?v=aI7YwJ1jBhY ''Aulos from ancient Greek and Roman times music''] (2019) | ||
| Line 30: | Line 33: | ||
* [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) | ||
* [https://youtube.com/watch?v=XV5NLBH7NpA ''Microtonal Music for Lyre (Etude in the Archytas Enharmonic Genus)''] (2016) | * [https://youtube.com/watch?v=XV5NLBH7NpA ''Microtonal Music for Lyre (Etude in the Archytas Enharmonic Genus)''] (2016) | ||
== Resources == | == Resources == | ||
Latest revision as of 14:30, 10 May 2026
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
- Ancient Greek Music (2012): a library of extant fragments using authentic tunings
Modern compositions using Ancient Greek tuning
- John Robert Bagby (Socratic Swansongs)
- 2 Studies on Ancient Greek Scales (1991, for flute and zoomoozophone)
- Corinthian Nights - Ancient Greek Music (2023, feat. Dimitris Athanasopoulos)
- In Numa's Time - Ancient Roman Song[2] (2023)
- Dance of the Spartans - Ancient Greek Music (2022)
- 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)