Ancient Greek Music Theory
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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