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Article: Music and Musicians in Ancient Greece.
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- March 1, 1996
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The music of ancient Greece has fascinated and baffled generations of scholars. The fascination, of course, is inherent in the tradition that ancient Greece is the cradle of Western civilization; the bafflement comes mainly from the fragmentary and enigmatic nature of the actual musical evidence from this remote time and place, the extant scraps of written-down music having been thought so seemingly unattractive to the ear, so uncharacteristic of what we think we know of the Hellenic arts.
Within the past several decades, however, a revolution of method and understanding has taken place in this field, embodied particularly in four books: Andrew Barker's two volumes of ...