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Touches on most of the questions the modern reader is likely to ask. Comotti tells his story well, and his version is packed with detail.
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Anyone who undertakes to write the history of ancient music, Greek and Roman, faces problems very different from those which confront scholars dealing with music of other periods: one is forced to account for the lines of musical development and the most significant moments in musical history, knowing little or nothing about the actual compositions themselves that were produced and performed at the time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rhythmic genre, spettacolo nel mondo antico, beat precedes, rhythmic signs, double genre, enharmonic genus, greater perfect system, conjunct tetrachords, diatonic genus, chronic value, inner notes, vocal notes, musical phenomena, musical signs, melodic forms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Anyone who undertakes to write the history of ancient music, Greek and Roman, faces problems very different from those which confront scholars dealing with music of other periods: one is forced to account for the lines of musical development and the most significant moments in musical history, knowing little or nothing about the actual compositions themselves that were produced and performed at the time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rhythmic genre, spettacolo nel mondo antico, beat precedes, rhythmic signs, double genre, enharmonic genus, greater perfect system, conjunct tetrachords, diatonic genus, chronic value, inner notes, vocal notes, musical phenomena, musical signs, melodic forms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Iphigenia in Aulis (Plays for Performance Series) by Euripides on page 2, page 34, and page 110
- Musical Thought in Ancient Greece by Edward A. Lippman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Greek Musical Writings: Volume 1, The Musician and his Art (Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Music) by Andrew Barker in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Dialogues of Plato (Bantam Classic) by Plato in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The History of Musical Instruments by Curt Sachs in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology (Routledge Radical Orthodoxy) by John Milbank on page 270, and page 273
- The Dance of the Muses: Choral Theory and Ancient Greek Poetics by A. P. David on page 92, and Back Matter
- Ancient Greek Music (Clarendon Paperbacks) by M. L. West on page 294, and Back Matter
- Women Writing Latin, Volume One: Women Writing Latin in Roman Antiquity, Late Antiquity, and the Early Christian Era by Laurie J. Churchill on page 77, and page 83
- Pan's Travail: Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans (Ancient Society and History) by J. Donald Hughes in Back Matter
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