Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1163/22129758-01101000
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Pub Date : 2023-02-14DOI: 10.1163/22129758-bja10051
Chrḗstos Terzḗs
Among the treatises on ancient music theory transmitted in the course of the manuscript tradition, a short excerpt stemmed from Bacchius’ Eisagōgē technēs mousikēs is located in seven medieval manuscripts, usually known as the ‘Bacchius fragment’, edited by Ruelle in 1875. The present paper investigates the manuscript tradition of the Bacchius fragment, dates the terminus ante quem of its compilation and restores its archetype; ultimately the Bacchius fragment is presented in a new critical edition with an English translation and commentary.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1163/22129758-bja10061
Athina Katsanevaki
Pentatonism in ancient Greek music refers to so called ‘gapped scales’, quoted by Pseudo-Aristotle, Pseudo-Plutarch, Nicomachus and Aristides Quintilianus. In the case of Nicomachus, the interchangeabilities of pitches and positions of notes, with the musical nomenclature, make the text incomprehensible. These extracts have already been analyzed by Chailley (1956, 1968), Barker (1989, 2007) and Franklin (2019). It is important though, to shift from the Western concept of music in order to unfold the musical process revealed in the texts. Ethnomusicological research reveals a network of musical dialects which follows an evolutionary process and suggests new possible interpretations: it breaks down the predominant concept of the theory of the cycle of the fifths and leads to a ‘flexible’ pentatonism, produced by focal points created by a ‘building up’ or ‘making’ of musical scales. Additionally, the critical approach of the extant fragments in the environs of the field of Ethnomusicology offers new interpretations for an ancient Greek musical praxis.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-27DOI: 10.1163/22129758-bja10055
Stefan Hagel
Although ancient sources describe the mechanism of the ancient water organ’s wind supply in considerable detail, modern attempts at recreating such a device have remained unsatisfactory. A study of the relations between the shape of the pressure chamber, its size, possible water levels and the ensuing usable air pressure and volume suggests that the true hydraulis played at much higher pressures than has been commonly assumed. Such pressures would support reed pipes much more readily than flue pipes; this, in turn, can explain the sound volume that we must expect from an instrument that was used in open spaces and inherently noisy environments.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-27DOI: 10.1163/22129758-bja10059
George Karamanolis
{"title":"Music and Philosophy in the Roman Empire, edited by Pelosi, F., and Petrucci, F.M.","authors":"George Karamanolis","doi":"10.1163/22129758-bja10059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22129758-bja10059","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36585,"journal":{"name":"Greek and Roman Musical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41841808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1163/22129758-bja10057
W. Levitan
{"title":"A Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Music. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World, edited by Lynch, T.A.C., and Rocconi, E.","authors":"W. Levitan","doi":"10.1163/22129758-bja10057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22129758-bja10057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36585,"journal":{"name":"Greek and Roman Musical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43262316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.1163/22129758-bja10053
Amy S. Lewis
I argue that in the ode and antode of Birds (737–52 and 769–84), Aristophanes presents a ‘mash-up’ of the early tragic songs of Phrynichus and the late fifth-century New Music. I analyze the comic presentation of both in Aristophanes and other comic poets to show that while they are contextually distinct, there is evidence of some musical congruity that renders them a fitting pair for combination in a mash-up. Regarding the ode and antode of Birds, I argue that despite the Phrynichean style of the songs, their meta-musical discourse shows a New Music poetics. I identify the New Musical aspect of the songs in the figure of the nightingale-aulete and the bird-noise refrains. Contextualizing the mash-up in the comic plot, I suggest that it constitutes a comic musical commentary on the play’s politics.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-19DOI: 10.1163/22129758-bja10056
M. Raffa
{"title":"The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato, written by Gurd, S.A.","authors":"M. Raffa","doi":"10.1163/22129758-bja10056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22129758-bja10056","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36585,"journal":{"name":"Greek and Roman Musical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43997398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-17DOI: 10.1163/22129758-bja10058
Flaminia Beneventano della Corte
{"title":"Music and Metamorphosis in Graeco-Roman Thought, written by LeVen, P.A.","authors":"Flaminia Beneventano della Corte","doi":"10.1163/22129758-bja10058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22129758-bja10058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36585,"journal":{"name":"Greek and Roman Musical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44717891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-16DOI: 10.1163/22129758-bja10052
Ronald Blankenborg
This paper argues for the interpretation of the words on Basel BS 415 as the markers not only of the song’s content, but equally of its musical notation. Predating such notation, the inscribed syllables reflect language’s priority over music, as opposed to the later reversal of these priorities. On Basel BS 415, written words’ orthography sufficed as an indication of the syllables’ prosodic qualities that enabled musical accompaniment to follow the lead of verbal rhythm and melody. As later reform likely championed the opposite, orthography gradually gave way to specialised musical signs and notation to account for the music that was to be the frame within which sung language was to be fitted. Basel BS 415, I will argue, conforms to the practice of representing song through sung words as evidenced in metrical inscriptions of the archaic period.
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