Music In Ancient Greece Gabby Schwartz - PowerPoint Presentation

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Music In Ancient Greece

Gabby SchwartzSlide2

There were "staff cant notation" with four lines, similar to our staff lines today.

The Music in Ancient Greece was written differently than today.

These staff chant

notations had a line that was clef, either middle C or the F below middle C. This is like our modern C

clefs and bass clefs.

Notes and note groups were called neumes. A neume may carry only one syllable of text.Slide3
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The Ancient Greeks played a variety of different instruments.

These are images of some of the many Ancient Greek musical instruments.

1) Harpsichord 2) Sackbut or Trombone 3) Tenor

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hawn 4) Bass

As you can see, many of these instruments still exist today. Slide6

This image is titled “Three Musicians” or “The Concert” by the Master of Female Half-Lengths.

The painting illustrates the many ways in which music in Ancient Greece could be performed.

There is a flutist who reads the superius part (similar to soprano), a singer who sings the tenor part, and a lutenist who improvises the other voices from memory.Slide7
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These are steps that indicate which tone to play or sing. This is an excerpt from a manuscript

Musica

enchiriadias

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This period of music, as you may be able to see,

had music

that featured remarkable rhythmic completion.Slide12

This is a page from the

Squarcialupi

Codex. As displayed in the image, much of the music in Ancient Greece was heavily illustrated. Slide13

This is the first portion of the

superius

part for the

motet

Laudate Dominium by Pierre de

Manchicourt. This piece of music is using a type in which each note, rest, clef, or other sign includes the staff on which it sits. The notes written in Ancient Greece were usually in a diamond shape.Slide14

Many Historians found paintings, sculptures, and vases with pictures from ancient Greece that related to music, often including various different forms of instruments on them and many people singing.Slide15
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Music is a very important aspect of Ancient Greek culture

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Music was played as entertainment, during feasts, and it often portrayed different emotions. Slide17

In the beginning,

Penelope has to come

down from her room

and tell the suitors to stop the song that is playing because it makes her think of Odysseus and she starts

weeping. Also, at Alkinoos Palace, they talk about how beautiful the instrument is that is playing.

In The Odyssey

by Homer, music was played by a band during

feasts,

and invoked the characters emotions.Slide18

The Odyssey contains many areas where music is incorporated into the story and it is a significant part, even if it may not seem like it. The music often causes other things to happen in the

epic.Slide19

Music was a major part of Ancient Greek culture and history and still holds a major aspect of their culture today.

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Thank

You! ♪ Slide20
Citations

http://www.desy.de/gna/interpedia/greek_myth/olympian.htmlhttp://www.mythweb.com/gods/index.html

http://www.flutetunes.com/tunes.php?id=329

http://www.gods-and-monsters.com/hermes-greek-god.html

http://www.gods-and-monsters.com/hermes-greek-god.htmlhttp://www.tapartoche.com/en/sheet-music.php?name=naruto-heaven-shaking-event&partition=3368

http://www.free-scores.com/download-sheet-music.php?pdf=20263