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The
Academy of Ancient Music was formed in 1973 by Christopher
Hogwood, taking its name from one of the leading
concert-giving organisations in eighteenth-century
London. It was among the first ensembles to specialise
in the performance of baroque music on period instruments.
The combination of a historically informed approach
and exceptionally high standards of performance have
made The Academy of Ancient Music into one of the
world’s leading chamber orchestras...
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At
the Austrian
Academy of Sciences © Stefan
Hagel
This
site contains all published fragments of Ancient Greek
music which contain more than a few scattered notes.
All of them are recorded under the use of tunings
whose exact ratios have been transmitted to us by
ancient theoreticians (of the Pythagorean school,
most of them cited by Ptolemaios)...
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Also
in Scandinavian.
Musical
instruments in Antiquity? What did they look
like? How were they played? Who were the
musicians? This site includes texts and photographs...
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Consider
the distance between two pitches, one with twice the
frequency of the other. If you subdivide this into
twelve equal intervals, you get the well-tempered
chromatic scale. This series of tones includes tones
that almost match Pythagoras's diatonic scale and
the scales used in most folk music around the world...
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©
P. Y. Bertrand
This
site, devoted to ancient Irish music, is mainly inspired
by the collections of Edward Bunting, who had attended
the famous Belfast Harp Festival in 1792 and had been
engaged to note down the music from the last harpers,
before it would vanish with them for ever...
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Also
in Russian
Ancient
Music Centre "ROSSICA" is one of the leading
classical music agencies in St.Petersburg, Russia.
Our history
began more than 20 years ago when the "Rossica"
choir was formed...
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By
Robert Fink, ©1988, ©1997, Greenwich Publishing.
Oldest
music and archeology pictures provide evidence that
harmony's evolution was early -- 4,000 year ago at
least.
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©
1993 Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc.
The
musical culture of ancient Greece is known more through
literary references than through preserved musical
documents. About 20 fragments of music are extant
written in a relatively late Greek notational system,
but references to music performed at various rites
and social occasions abound in the works of ancient
Greek authors...
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Tufts
University
Lesvos
was inhabited by the Pelasgians in the 15th century
BC. Achaians flooded the island during the Trojan
war, because of the proximity of Lesvos with Troy.
According to Iliad, Achilles raided Lesvos frequently,
and during one of his raids he captured Brysiida,
the young girl that ignited Achille's feud with Agamemnon,
the Achaian chief...
Site
Includes biographies on the following ancient musicians
and lyricists:
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©
Copyright 1997 Richard Dumbrill
The
Musicology and Organology of the Ancient Near East
3500 - 500 BC
The
Musicology and Organology of the Ancient Near East
is the only work at present which includes the totality
of the data related to the subject. It is divided
into four sections: Theory, The Hurrian hymns, Organology,
Musical Lexicon. From this site you can download
this book, order hardcopy and CD Rom.
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This
site explains the step sequences (with illustrations)
of the Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian,
Aeolian and Locrian modes.
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