Music
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[originally by Dr. Armand D’Angour for the Conversation] Wikimedia Commons Armand D’Angour, University of Oxford In 1932, the musicologist Wilfrid Perrett reported to an audience at the Royal Musical Association in London the words of an unnamed professor of Greek with musical leanings: “Nobody has ever made head or tail of ancient Greek music, and…
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Sounds kind of sketchy, but it’s actually Armand D’Angour talking about matters ancient musical on NPR’s Weekend Edition: Should ‘Troy’ Have Been A Musical? Finding Melodies In The Classics … speaking of Dr D’Angour, I have some catchup blogging in the queue for him as well … coming soon
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Dr Armand D’Angour — he of Olympian Ode fame — has an interesting research project in the works: Dr Armand D’Angour, Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Jesus College, has embarked on a two-year research project, part-funded by the British Academy, to reconstruct the songs and music of the classical world. Piecing together the lyrics,…
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Last week we mentioned how John Franklin et al had a project to recreate the ancient Greek kithara (Recreating the Kithara) … a few days later, he gave a talk on the process:
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About once a year we hear of someone reproducing this or that ancient instrument. This time around, it’s the so-called “Lyre of Hermes”, which is the lyre you often see depicted on Hellenistic pottery. Dixit Serkan Çelik (a lecturer at Ege University Turkish Music Conservatory): “Some depictions were not too clear, that’s why we had…
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