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Early Music Discoveries and Ancient Greece (700BC-100AD)

Early Music Discoveries and Ancient Greece (700BC-100AD). Primary Uses for Music. Supernatural powers Purify the mind (King David playing for Saul) Heal the body Break natural laws (walls of Jericho) Accompany Poetry Bards used instruments to help tell stories

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Early Music Discoveries and Ancient Greece (700BC-100AD)

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  1. Early Music Discoveries and Ancient Greece (700BC-100AD)

  2. Primary Uses for Music • Supernatural powers • Purify the mind (King David playing for Saul) • Heal the body • Break natural laws (walls of Jericho) • Accompany Poetry • Bards used instruments to help tell stories • The Odyssey, Agamemnon, Oedipus Rex • Religious Ceremonies

  3. Common Instruments • Lyre • Resembles a harp. • Pythagoras experimented with string length and tension to create different pitches. • Associated with Apollo (war) • Aulos • Resembles flute but sounds like oboe • Associated with Dionysus (wine and fertility)

  4. Example #1 Demodokos’s Song Excerpt from Homer’s Odyssey This piece would be sung to tell the story of Odysseus's adventures in the epic poem.

  5. Example #2 Song of Seikilos By Seikilos Only surviving ancient Greek composition Dedicated to the wife of Seikilos.

  6. Example #3zoidakisnikosoidodekaapostoloi“The Twelve Apostles”

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