Ancient Greek Music a New Technical History
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چکیده
By the middle of the third century BC, from which the first preserved documents of ancient Greek written music date,1 musical notation was already firmly established; it had acquired much of the inner structure that emerges from the full account given in Alypius’ handbook, compiled perhaps half a millennium later. Thus we are not in a position to directly observe the evolution of this system out of more primitive precursors; its origins are the object of speculation. Although some work has been done on this subject, there are several details for which no adequate explanation has been proposed so far. In the following chapter a new theory of the original conception and early evolution of ancient notation will be derived mainly from internal structural evidence. In accord with the nature of such an approach, this initial argument evolves on rather abstract lines. This might seem hardly appropriate for a musical subject, but it allows the development of a consistent view from a very limited body of evidence. It will be left to the later chapters to embed the conclusions, sometimes with modifications, into a broader, more practical and historical, picture.
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