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 Music
in Ancient Greece and Rome by John G. Landels
Music in Ancient
Greece and Rome is a comprehensive introduction to the study of
music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Trahan. John G.
Landels offers the first scholarly overview of the practical and
performance elements of music, rather than the moral and aesthetic
discussion typified by the works of Plato. Illustrated with transcriptions
of surviving musical scores, diagrams and line-drawings of instruments
and performers, the book explores the contexts in which music
played a role, such as mythology and poetry. Detailed discussion
is also given to the instruments, including the aulos, the kithara
and the lyre, as well as the ingenious notation system devised
by the Greeks which enables us to read the few surviving scores.
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