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Ancient Greek Music (Clarendon Paperbacks)

By M. L. West

Book information

Year
1994
ISBN
0198149751, 9780198149750, 9780585229928
Open Library ID
OL7396860M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (20147998 bytes)
Pages
440\458
Topic
Art Music: Guitar
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Ancient Greece was permeated by music, and the literature teems with musical allusions. Here at last is a clear, comprehensive, and authoritative account that presupposes no special knowledge of music. Topics covered include the place of music in Greek life, instruments, rhythm, tempo, modes and scales, melodic construction, form, ancient theory and notation, and historical development. Thirty surviving examples of Greek music are presented in modern transcription with analysis, and the book is fully illustrated. Besides being considered on its own terms, Greek music is here further illuminated by being considered in ethnological perspective, and a brief Epilogue sets it in its place in a border zone between Afro-Asiatic and European culture. The book will be of value both to classicists and historians of music.

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