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This book endeavours to pinpoint the relations between musical, and
especially instrumental, practice and the evolving conceptions of
pitch systems. It traces the development of ancient melodic
notation from reconstructed origins, through various adaptations
necessitated by changing musical styles and newly invented
instruments, to its final canonical form. It thus emerges how
closely ancient harmonic theory depended on the culturally dominant
instruments, the lyre and the aulos. These threads are followed
down to late antiquity, when details recorded by Ptolemy permit an
exceptionally clear view. Dr Hagel discusses the textual and
pictorial evidence, introducing mathematical approaches wherever
feasible, but also contributes to the interpretation of instruments
in the archaeological record and occasionally is able to outline
the general features of instruments not directly attested. The book
will be indispensable to all those interested in Greek music,
technology and performance culture and the general history of
musicology.
This book endeavours to pinpoint the relations between musical, and
especially instrumental, practice and the evolving conceptions of
pitch systems. It traces the development of ancient melodic
notation from reconstructed origins, through various adaptations
necessitated by changing musical styles and newly invented
instruments, to its final canonical form. It thus emerges how
closely ancient harmonic theory depended on the culturally dominant
instruments, the lyre and the aulos. These threads are followed
down to late antiquity, when details recorded by Ptolemy permit an
exceptionally clear view. Dr Hagel discusses the textual and
pictorial evidence, introducing mathematical approaches wherever
feasible, but also contributes to the interpretation of instruments
in the archaeological record and occasionally is able to outline
the general features of instruments not directly attested. The book
will be indispensable to all those interested in Greek music,
technology and performance culture and the general history of
musicology.
A collection of 32 Latin and 1977 Greek inscriptions from western
Cilicia from graves and other monuments.
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