Ancient Music Flashcards
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Ancient Greek Music
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Mostly sung, bull lyre documented instrument. Epitaph of Seikilos - lyre, sounds like a chant.
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Boethius
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Authority on music in Middle Ages (480-524). De institutione musica. Musica mundana (cosmos), musica Humana (body/soul), music instrumentals (produced by voices/instruments.
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Middle Ages (term)
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Between ancient civilization and modern world (Ancient Greece and Renaissance)
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Troubadors
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Traveled in French region (beyond Paris) - Northern, Occitan (langue d’oc) 12th-13th cent
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Trouvére
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Traveling poet/composers - Southern region(langue d’oil)
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Kithara and Aulos
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Kithara - 5-7 stringed instrument (large lyre). Aulos - single/double reed instrument