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Ancient Greek Music (Clarendon Paperbacks)

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Ancient Greece used to be permeated by music, and the literature teems with musical allusions. Here finally is a clear, comprehensive, and authoritative account that presupposes no special knowledge of music. Topics covered come with 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 brand new transcription with analysis, and the book is fully illustrated. But even so being thought to be by itself terms, Greek music is here further illuminated by being thought to be in ethnological standpoint, and a brief Epilogue sets it as an alternative in a border zone between Afro-Asiatic and European culture. The book will probably be of value both to classicists and historians of music.

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