Ancient Greek Music: A New Technical History by Stefan Hagel PDF

By Stefan Hagel

ISBN-10: 0521517648

ISBN-13: 9780521517645

This booklet endeavours to pinpoint the family among musical, and particularly instrumental, perform and the evolving conceptions of pitch platforms. It lines the improvement of historic melodic notation from reconstructed origins, via quite a few variations necessitated by way of altering musical types and newly invented tools, to its ultimate canonical shape. It hence emerges how heavily historic harmonic conception trusted the culturally dominant tools, the lyre and the aulos. those threads are right down to overdue antiquity, while info recorded by way of Ptolemy allow a really transparent view. Dr Hagel discusses the textual and pictorial proof, introducing mathematical techniques anywhere possible, but additionally contributes to the translation of tools within the archaeological list and sometimes is ready to define the final beneficial properties of tools indirectly attested. The publication can be necessary to all these attracted to Greek tune, expertise and function tradition and the final heritage of musicology.

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