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Ancient Music
I always wondered what, if anything, survived of ancient music, because it really was a central part of life even back then. Thanks to Lynn Unleashed, who linked up this article, I have a better idea. In a nutshell: a very little bit of music survived, even some instructional books on how to read and perform it, but nobody (until now) has tried very hard to put it all together and reconstruct it. Really interesting stuff.
Wow! I had Ancient History class in college and music was mentioned, but the professor didn't know much about it; just that music was part of their lives. I would love to hear the "music" as the ancients "played" it.
Posted by: Cindy on November 8, 2002 11:28 PMReading that article gave me chills. I would love to hear the music sung by a trained voice, which is certainly not the way the ancients probably heard it but I have recently developed a weakness for operatically trained voices.
Posted by: Lynn on November 10, 2002 12:12 PM