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Ancient Greek Music: A New Technical History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-51764-5. Kramarz, Andreas (2016). The Power and Value of Music. Its Effect and Ethos in Classical Authors and Contemporary Music Theory. New York/Bern: Peter Lang Publishing. ISBN 9781433133787. Landels, John G. (1999). Music in Ancient Greece ...
Map showing the location of the Greek island of Rhodes. The "Swallow Song of Rhodes" is a famous ancient Greek folk song.In a tradition closely resembling the modern custom of trick-or-treating, [1] during the month of Boedromion, the children on the Greek island of Rhodes would go out dressed as swallows and beg from door to door, singing the song.
The Seikilos epitaph is an Ancient Greek inscription that preserves the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation. [1] Commonly dated between the 1st and 2nd century AD, the inscription was found engraved on a pillar from the ancient Hellenistic town of Tralles (present-day Turkey) in 1883.
Fragments of both hymns in the Delphi Archaeological Museum. The Delphic Hymns are two musical compositions from Ancient Greece, which survive in substantial fragments.They were long regarded as being dated c. 138 BC and 128 BC, respectively, but recent scholarship has shown it likely they were both written for performance at the Athenian Pythaids in 128 BC. [1]
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Choral poetry is a type of lyric poetry that was created by the ancient Greeks and performed by choruses (see Greek chorus).Originally, it was accompanied by a lyre, a string instrument like a small U-shaped harp commonly used during Greek classical antiquity and later periods.
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The music of Greece is as diverse and celebrated as its history.Greek music separates into two parts: Greek traditional music and Byzantine music.These compositions have existed for millennia: they originated in the Byzantine period and Greek antiquity; there is a continuous development which appears in the language, the rhythm, the structure and the melody. [1]