This is a crazy lie.
In fact, ancient Greek music has long been an annoying mystery.
However, music was everywhere in ancient Greece. Most poems from 750 BC to 350 BC-songs by Homer, Sappho and others-were written and performed with singing music, sometimes accompanied by dancing.
Literary works provide rich and highly specific details about notes, scales, effects and instruments used.
The harp is a unique function. Like the popular Oro, two oboes are played by one player at the same time, which sounds like two powerful oboes playing together.
Despite this wealth of information, the feeling and sound of ancient Greek music are still elusive.
This is because of the terms and concepts found in ancient materials-mode, enhancement, Diez, etc. -It's complicated and unfamiliar.
Although music exists and can be reliably explained, it is scarce and fragmentary.
What can be reconstructed in practice often sounds strange and unattractive-so ancient Greek music is regarded by many as a lost art and an ancient reconstruction of ancient Greek music. Since 20 13, I have been engaged in a project to study ancient Greek music, and I have produced amazing opinions on how the ancient Greeks made music.
My research even led to its performance-I hope that in the future, we will see more such reconstruction, interpretation and the latest reconstruction of ancient Greek music. The situation has changed a lot, because in the past few years, some well-preserved Oloys have been rebuilt by experts and technicians, such as Robin Howell and his researchers who participated in the European music archaeology project.
Played by highly skilled bagpipers such as barnaby Brown and Callum Armstrong, they provide faithful guidance for the pitch range of ancient music and the pitch, timbre and tuning of the instrument itself.
The core of ancient songs is rhythm, and the rhythm of ancient Greek music can be obtained from the meter of poetry.
They are strictly based on the duration of syllables, which creates patterns of long elements and short elements.
Although there is no sign of rhythm in ancient songs, people often know clearly whether the beat should be sung fast or slow (until the invention of mechanical timer, the rhythm was not fixed anyway, and it must be different in different performances).
If you want the music to sound just right, it is essential to set an appropriate rhythm.
Apollo played the harp.
Wikipedia * * * resource network, where is the tune-melody and harmony? This is what most people mean when they claim that "music" in ancient Greece has disappeared.
In the works of Plato, Aristotle, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Aristide Kuntila Yunus and other ancient writers, the theory of melody and harmony has spread for thousands of words.
At the end of 16, Florence first exposed some fragmentary music scores with ancient music scores.
However, for real music, this evidence does not really understand the richness of melody and harmony from the literary source.
Starting from 158 1, more documents about ancient markers of papyrus or stones appeared intermittently, and now there are about 60 fragments.
After careful compilation, copying and interpretation by scholars such as Martin West and Egert Póhlmann, we have a better chance to understand The Sound of Music.
The earliest substantial music document was found in 1892, which preserved the chorus part of the Athens tragedy euripides Forest in 408 BC.
For a long time, it has been a difficult problem to explain, mainly because it uses a quarter interval and seems to imply an exotic atmosphere.
Western music is played in whole tones and semitones, and any smaller interval will ring in our ears, just like a note played by Yin Bei Wu or a piece of Orestes music by euripides.
Wikimedia likes it very much, but my analysis of forest debris published earlier this year brought amazing insights.
First of all, I demonstrated that the elements in the score clearly show the drawing method of words-imitating the meaning of words through the shape of melody lines.
We find that the word "lament" has a downward rhythm, accompanied by a big upward interval jump of the word "jump".
Secondly, I show that if a quarter tone plays the role of "transmitting notes", then this article is actually tonal (the focus is on a tone, which will be restored regularly).
This should not be very surprising, because these tones existed in all ancient music documents in the following centuries, including the large Delfia Payne preserved in stones.
On these premises, I reconstructed the music of oris Papyrus in June, 2065-438, accompanied by chorus, and set a brisk rhythm according to the rhythm of chorus and the content of lyrics.
2065438+In July 2007, the choir of ashmolean museum, Oxford performed this song with Oros players and other reconstructed ancient music scores. Still let me realize that there are dozens of other ancient music scores in the next few years, many of which are very fragmentary, and a complete ancient drama is staged with a historical story.
At the same time, music in ancient dramas, such as Epidalus' plays, may draw an exciting conclusion.
The tradition of western classical music often begins with Gregorian folk songs in the 9th century. However, the reconstruction and performance of Greek music show that ancient Greek music should be regarded as the root of European music tradition. Above: Young people play Oros, details of the banquet scene.
The red picture cup in the attic, about 460 BC to 450 BC.