Ancient Greek Music Theory

[Jen Grier]

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
Composer, Arranger, Saxophonist
http://jengrier.com

[Jens Rodrigo]

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.


This really may help:
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/search?q=Ancient+Greek+music+theory&t=all

Cheers Jens

[Jens Rodrigo]

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.
>
> Thank you for reading my inquiry. My apologies for the crosspost.


This really may help:
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/search?q=Ancient+Greek+music+theory&t=all

Cheers Jens

[Arthur Ness]

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.

ajn
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"Jen Grier" > 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
> Composer, Arranger, Saxophonist
> http://jengrier.com
>
>
>
>
>

[Roland Hutchinson]

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.

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[Steve Layton]

"Jen Grier" > 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.

Nancy Sultan made this bibliography:

http://titan.iwu.edu/~classics/music.html

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.


--
Steve Layton
http://www.niwo.com/steve/

[Steve Layton]

"Jen Grier" > 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.

Nancy Sultan made this bibliography:

http://titan.iwu.edu/~classics/music.html

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.


--
Steve Layton
http://www.niwo.com/steve/