Allgemein
Ancient
Greek Music
Stefan Hagel - Austrian Academy of Sciences
This site contains all published fragments of Ancient Greek
music which contain more than a few scattered notes. All of
them are recorded under the use of tunings whose exact ratios
have been transmitted to us by ancient theoreticians (of the
Pythagorean school, most of them cited by Ptolemaios).
Instruments and speed are chosen by the author. The exact
sound depends on your hard- and software.
http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/agm/index.htm
Homeric
Singing - An Approach to the Original Performance
Stefan Hagel - Austrian Academy of Sciences
In the course of the last years, we have developed a technique
of singing the Homeric epics, which is appropriate for the
primarily oral tradition from which these poems emerge. The
Homeric bard sang his songs to the four-stringed phorminx,
improvising his four-note melody at the same time as he
improvised his text, which was unique in every performance.
His monotonous melody, far from interpreting the text, served
only as a medium to transport the words and to catch the
listeners' attention by their intrinsic rhythm.
Our
theory is not to be understood as the exact reconstruction of
a given melody, but as an approach to the technique the
Homeric singers used to accommodate melodic principles to the
demands of the individual verse, guided by the accentual
structure and sentence-intonation of the Ancient Greek
language as well as by metrical structures.
http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/sh/
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