Can You Name These Ancient Composers?
While actual sheet music from the ancient world is hard to come by, we still hear about some of the giants who provided the soundtrack for the world’s earliest civilizations.
£3.5m project to record ancient music
Music from the ancient world – from the Stone Age to the Romans – will be recreated and recorded as part of a £3.5 million European Music Archaeology Project.
The musical revolution of fifth-century Greece
Through a study of the ancient literature, most of which deals with music only incidentally, we will be able to understand how the New Music movement was encouraged by Greek culture, given an incentive by fifth-century society, and studied by some of the most brilliant philosophers and musicians Greek history has known.
Was Pythagoras Ever Really in Sparta?
Did he really go to all of these places in person or did the Pythagorean movement make such claims in order to bolster their own credibility? Did others make similar claims for political and/or propagandistic reasons? Let us consider the sources as we have them.