11-22-2005, 06:34 PM
Khairete,
that is something I always wonder about...a lot of ancient music is very, I don't know how to discribe it, 'disjointed' sounding...given the instruments and the modern ear...that is how it is interpretated.
Of course, some interpretation is based on the traditional folk music of the region, which in a lot of cases is descended from medieval or earlier.
How do we know that the actual music of the ancient Greeks and Romans was not very lively and bouncy....they may have jumped around like modern teenagers in a 'mosh pit' at times....very unlikely, I know :lol:
It is very difficult for ourselves, having access to all sorts of music, to wipe out around 2,000 years of 'hearing' and to put ourselves into a different frame of mind of someone who lived in a totally different world.
I know hearing the sound of some of those early interpretations give me goosebumps, maybe that is indicative of a 'regressive memory'...
regards
Arthes
that is something I always wonder about...a lot of ancient music is very, I don't know how to discribe it, 'disjointed' sounding...given the instruments and the modern ear...that is how it is interpretated.
Of course, some interpretation is based on the traditional folk music of the region, which in a lot of cases is descended from medieval or earlier.
How do we know that the actual music of the ancient Greeks and Romans was not very lively and bouncy....they may have jumped around like modern teenagers in a 'mosh pit' at times....very unlikely, I know :lol:
It is very difficult for ourselves, having access to all sorts of music, to wipe out around 2,000 years of 'hearing' and to put ourselves into a different frame of mind of someone who lived in a totally different world.
I know hearing the sound of some of those early interpretations give me goosebumps, maybe that is indicative of a 'regressive memory'...
regards
Arthes
Cristina
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The Hoplite Association
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The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
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