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Much of what we think of as Ancient Greek poetry, including Homerâs Iliad and Odyssey, was composed to be sung, frequently with the accompaniment of musical instruments. And while the Greeks left modern classicists many indications that music was omnipresent in society â from vases decorated with lyres, to melodic notation preserved on stone â the precise character and contours of the music has long been considered irreproducible. However, the UK Classicist and classical musician Armand DâAngour has spent years endeavouring to stitch the mysterious sounds of Ancient Greek music back together from large and small hints left behind. In 2017, his work culminated in a unique performance at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, intended to recreate the sounds of Greek music dating as far back as Homerâs era â roughly 700 BCE. This short documentary details the extraordinary research and musical expertise that made the concert possible, revealing remarkable sounds once thought lost to time. To learn more about what music sounded like in Ancient Greece, read DâAngourâs Aeon idea: aeon.co/ideas/can-we-know-what-music-sounded-like-âŚ
Director: Mike Tomlinson
Producer: Hannah Veale, James Tomalin
#ancientgreece #history #greekmusic
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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Mar 27, 2019 ^^
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Its crazy how the aulos can sound so hideous but also so beautiful. Callumâs improvisation was so surreal, it brought me into some other world.
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The performance by Callum around 9:00 sounded much like the traditional music still played today in Albania and Greece. Really amazing that we can recover these things from so long ago.
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I love it when someoneâs extreme passion (bordering on obsession) ends up culminating into a beautiful experience everyone can enjoy. Just because one person or a small group of people refused to let other people tell them, âitâs lost,â or, âit canât be done.â
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This is the absolute nerdiest thing that I have ever thoroughly enjoyed!!
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The double flute played by Callum at 8:49 almost sounds like an accordion at times and others a bagpipe, but sometimes a flute. I love this instrument. Really cool
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As a Greek I want to thank you very much for what you do.
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The cyclical breathing technique the double pipe improviser is using is MIND BOGGLING. Consistent and never ending sound.
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I'm not even saying this to be funny but just honest. That last one Euripides' Orestes from 408 BC sounds like a an ancient world Power Metal song. I could easily hear that melody with bone crunching electric guitars and drums while someone like Simone Simons from Epica sang it.
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I hope one day I'll be able to see a play of the Iliad and Odyssey to traditional flutes and lyres with a Greek narrator
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Wow, as a Greek I never knew that music melodies have been actually preserved, thank you so much. The aulos player was amazing.
Aulos in Greek = ÎĎ
ÎťĎĎ ("avlos", with a v) , possibly coming from proto indo european hâeulos meaning pipe.
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Itâs amazing that the ancient musical notes are still surviving
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The performance of mr. Callum Armstrong really, really sounds like Greek traditional music, especially the type of "kathistika", which are slow, lyric songs about unfulfilled love, tragic heroes and warriors for freedom. In the "modern" version, the musician will play his flute/bagpipe/lyre/oud/kanun etc, and then slowly sings the lyrics. Very touching performance...
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The Aulos performance at 8:49 brought me to tears... Just imagining that this performance could have actually taken place more than 2000 years ago. Times so different one can't imagine but the people still performing and enjoying these melodies and harmonies just like me right here on my chair. It's just human nature
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OÎG. As a Greek I have heard literally if not thousands at least hundrends of songs of country music played with clarinet and lute and this music here is as close as it can be with the country music played in today's times. A bit shocked that the main form is kept unchanged for thousands of years.
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Hendrix on the two pipes is killing it truly what a legend. Everyone else was okay
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Even knowing how much is unknowable, experimental archeology can sometimes hit powerfully on an intuitive level. The pipe expertâs improvisation and the idea they played them like bagpipes with air held in the cheeks, struck me as so authentic and true.
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I love this. Speaking as a Greek, and also an amateur composer, I am really impressed by Athenaeus' Paeon. The music you hear in Greek villages and in the Orthodox church reminds me of what I am hearing here. But a more important thing - something that most people don't know - is that melodies have a much more specific connection to lyrics than people are aware of. If you listen to the music and think about the lyrics, they fit together nicely. This is why I think the reconstruction of the melodies is accurate. Good job!!!
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What we recognize as the classic âGreek playsâ were really Operas in everything but name. All spoken words in the âplaysâ of Sophocles, Aristophanes, Euripides, etc. were all sung, with live music playing.
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I would like to see the chorus and aulos performance again after they have had more time to rehearse. It would have been better had the chorus had the music memorized so that they could watch the conductor. Not only would they have been more synchronized, they could have played more with the mood and dynamics as the conductor was trying to have them do.
Overall, this program was fascinating. I very much enjoyed the exploration into reconstructing ancient music. Callum Armstrongâs aulos performance was beautiful and moving.
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@robwalsh9843
2 years ago
These guys are okay, but let me tell you about this band I saw in Antioch back in 175 BC. Man, they crushed it.
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