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Hello Musicians, Composers, Fellow Students, and Musicologists,
I'm an undergrad student studying ancient Greek music theory in depth for application to a contemporary performance.
Has anyone written on the subject to a considerable degree? My work is an Honors Project, much akin to an undergraduate thesis of sorts. I'm looking for people to direct me to better sources and comment on my interpretations and troubles.
Thank you for reading my inquiry. My apologies for the crosspost.
Jen Grier <stjl...@moravian.edu> wrote: > Hello Musicians, Composers, Fellow Students, and Musicologists,
> I'm an undergrad student studying ancient Greek music theory in depth > for application to a contemporary performance.
> Has anyone written on the subject to a considerable degree? My work > is an Honors Project, much akin to an undergraduate thesis of sorts. > I'm looking for people to direct me to better sources and comment on > my interpretations and troubles.
> Thank you for reading my inquiry. My apologies for the crosspost.
Certainly you'd want to examine Thomas Mathiesen's award winning study (800 pages), _Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory inAntiquity and the Middle Ages._ It rec'd the Deems Taylor Award from ASCAP, the Kinkeldey Award from the AMS and the Berry Award from SMT.
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"Jen Grier" <stjl...@moravian.edu> wrote in message
> Hello Musicians, Composers, Fellow Students, and Musicologists,
> I'm an undergrad student studying ancient Greek music theory in depth for > application to a contemporary performance.
> Has anyone written on the subject to a considerable degree? My work is an > Honors Project, much akin to an undergraduate thesis of sorts. I'm > looking > for people to direct me to better sources and comment on my > interpretations > and troubles.
> Thank you for reading my inquiry. My apologies for the crosspost.
Jen Grier wrote: > Hello Musicians, Composers, Fellow Students, and Musicologists,
> I'm an undergrad student studying ancient Greek music theory in depth for > application to a contemporary performance.
> Has anyone written on the subject to a considerable degree? My work is an > Honors Project, much akin to an undergraduate thesis of sorts. I'm > looking for people to direct me to better sources and comment on my > interpretations and troubles.
There is an extensive literature; as you undoubtedly know (or, if you do not, as a glance at New Grove, Wikipedia, or any undergraduate music history textbook would have told you), this has been the subject of extensive historical research for most of the past millennium.
You don't say what sources you have discovered so far, so it's a little hard to offer specific advice. For a precis of the current state of knowledge and pointers to reasonably current work, why not start with the relevant chapters of the Cambridge History of Western Music Theory, an excellent recent book by experts in the field (now out in an affordable paperpack edition, and undoubtedly in your university library as well). If you don't know it, you should.
Or are you just looking for an expert in the field to advise you? Again, the Cambridge History can help get you pointed in the right direction.
-- Roland Hutchinson Will play viola da gamba for food.
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> Hello Musicians, Composers, Fellow Students, and Musicologists,
> I'm an undergrad student studying ancient Greek music theory in > depth for > application to a contemporary performance.
> Has anyone written on the subject to a considerable degree? My work > is an > Honors Project, much akin to an undergraduate thesis of sorts. I'm > looking > for people to direct me to better sources and comment on my > interpretations > and troubles.
> Thank you for reading my inquiry. My apologies for the crosspost.
The stuff on there that I've read (like the Comotti), while good, still leaves me unsatisfied. But that's not so much the fault of the writers as it is the impossibility of ever recovering much of a solid picture of what this music truly was.
> Hello Musicians, Composers, Fellow Students, and Musicologists,
> I'm an undergrad student studying ancient Greek music theory in > depth for > application to a contemporary performance.
> Has anyone written on the subject to a considerable degree? My work > is an > Honors Project, much akin to an undergraduate thesis of sorts. I'm > looking > for people to direct me to better sources and comment on my > interpretations > and troubles.
> Thank you for reading my inquiry. My apologies for the crosspost.
The stuff on there that I've read (like the Comotti), while good, still leaves me unsatisfied. But that's not so much the fault of the writers as it is the impossibility of ever recovering much of a solid picture of what this music truly was.
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