Canaanite Lyrist (Megiddo Plaque), Late Bronze Age
Israel Museum (IDAM) 38.780
Drawing by Anne Glynnis Fawkes

 

 

 

 

RESEARCH

Music Archaeology

The Global Economy
of Music in the
Ancient Near East

The Middle Muse:
Mesopotamian Echoes in
Archaic Greek Music

Lyre Gods of the Bronze Age
Musical Koine

The Wisdom of the Lyre:
Soundings in Ancient Greece, Cyprus and the Near East

“‘A Feast of Music’: The Greco-Lydian Musical Movement on the Assyrian Periphery”

Dithyramb and the
"Demise of Music"

Hearing Greek Microtones

South-Slavic Heroic Melody: Towards a New Method of Analysis

Structural Sympathies in Ancient Greek and South-Slavic Heroic Song

The Language of Musical Technique
in Greek Epic Diction

Diatonic Music in Greece:
A Reassessment of its Antiquity

Musical Syncretism and the Greek Orientalizing Period

Cuneiform Musical Texts

Terpander: The Invention of Music in the Orientalizing Period.

 

 

 

Recompositions/Realizations

Cyprosyrian Girl: Hits of the Ancient Hellenes

Virtual Greek Lyre for Reaktor™ 3.06

Realizations in Ancient Greek Music: Beyond the Fragments

Aristophanes Clouds

Aeschylus Libation Bearers

Varia

Harmony in Greek and Indo-Iranian Cosmology

Once More the Poet:
Keats, Severn and the Grecian Lyre.

Arrivederci Romania:
Romanian Street Musicians in Rome.

The Scholar Gypsy:
Tired of Knocking at Preferment's Door.

The Hobbit in Latin

Big Tom Bumble

Resources

500 word introduction to:
    Ancient Near Eastern Music
    Ancient Greek Music

S. Noegel's Bibliography of Ancient Near Eastern Music

International Study Group on Music Archaeology

ICTM Study Groups Website—Music Archeology

Stefan Hagel's Pages

AGM fragments
Danek/Hagel: model for Homeric singing

A few useful online resources for the ancient world, varying quality


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