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Cover of the Edition Peters sheet music of "Lux aeterna" by György Ligeti. This is a list of online digital musical document libraries.Each source listed below offers access to collections of digitized music documents (typically originating from printed or manuscript musical sources).
The Lilian Voudouri Music Library of Greece is a library located in Greece that specializes in music and was created under an initiative of the Friends of Music Society. [1] [2] The library opened to the public in February 1997. The library’s collection is primarily made up of western European music, going back to ancient Greek music. The ...
The full text of the musical fragment reads as follows: κατολοφύρομαι, κατολοφύρομαι ματέρος αἷμα σᾶς, ὅ σ’ ἀναβακχεύει,
Musical scene with three women painted by the Niobid painter.Side A of a red-figure amphora, Walters Art Museum. Music played an integral role in ancient Greek society. Pericles' teacher Damon said, according to Plato in the Republic, "when fundamental modes of music change, the fundamental modes of the state change with t
Archytas provided a rigorous proof that the basic musical intervals cannot be divided in half, or in other words, that there is no mean proportional between numbers in super-particular ratio (octave 2:1, fourth 4:3, fifth 3:2, 9:8). [12] [14] Archytas was also the first ancient Greek theorist to provide ratios for all 3 genera. [1]
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]
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.
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