Ancient Greek Music - A New Technical History

Informationen zum Autor Stefan Hagel is currently engaged in research on ancient music at the Kommission für Antike Literatur of the Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. His interests focus on ancient Greek music and metre, including reconstructions of ancient instruments and performance techniques. He also creates dedicated software for scholarly purposes and his Classical Text Editor received the European Academic Software Award. Previous books include: Modulation in altgriechischer Musik. Antike Melodien im Licht antiker Musiktheorie (2000) and Repertorium der westkilikischen Inschriften (with K. Tomaschitz, 1998). Klappentext This book offers a fundamental reworking of the history of the development of Greek music from the classical period to Roman times. Zusammenfassung This book offers a fundamental reworking of the history of Greek music from the classical period to Roman times. It explains anew the development of ancient melodic notation! embedding it in a context of professional music-making! in a musical culture determined mainly by the dominant instruments! the lyre and the aulos. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The evolution of ancient Greek musical notation; 2. Notation, instruments and the voice; 3. Notation in the handbooks; 4. Strings and notes; 5. Fine tuning; 6. Going beyond Ptolemy?; 7. Assisted resonance; 8. The extant musical documents; 9. Aulos types and pitches; 10. Before Aristoxenus; 11. Synthesis; Bibliography; Indices.

Product details

• Authors: Stefan Hagel, Stefan (Universitat Wien Hagel, Hagel Stefan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2009
• EAN: 9780521517645
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51764-5
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 237 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Music, HISTORY / General, Ancient Greece, History of Science, Theory of music & musicology, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Art music, orchestral and formal music