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Music of the ancient Greeks [sound recording].

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Corporate Author:
De Organographia (Musical group)
Language:
Greek, Ancient (to 1453), English
Imprint:
Gaston, Ore. : Pandourion, 1995.
Format:
  • Music - Recording
  • 1 sound disc (56 min., 31 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Note:
"Music from 500 BC to 300 AD performed on voice, lyra, kithara, aulos, pandoura, salpinx, syrinx, tympanon and other ancient Greek instruments"--Container. Compact disc. "Except for [apocrypha and fragments] almost all of the extant music known appears on this recording ... all of the instruments used here are copies of ancient Greek instruments, built by the performers"--Notes. Program notes by Philip Neuman, including some English translations of sung texts, details of the instruments and sources, inserted in container.
Contents:
  • Salpinx call / the "Sappho Painter" (5th cent. BC) ( :28)
  • Hymn to the Sun / Mesomedes (1st cent. AD)
  • Dramatic speech / anon. (ca. 100 AD, Oslo payrus inv. 1413) (2:45)
  • Song / Seikilos (1st cent. AD) (2:04)
  • Invocation of the muse / anon. (2nd cent. AD) (1:31)
  • Invocation of Calliope and Apollo / Mesomedes (1st cent. AD) (3:22)
  • Delphic paean / Athenaeus (127 BC) (3:41)
  • Dramatic fragments / anon. (3rd cent. AD, Oxyrhynchus papyrus 3161, fragments 1 and 4) ( :58; 1:06)
  • Dramatic fragment / anon. (ca. 200 BC, Vienna papyrus G 29825 a-b recto) (1:21)
  • Orestes : choral ode / Euripides (ca. 404 BC, Vienna papyrus G 2315) (1:13)
  • (Cont.) Iphigeneia at Aulis : choral ode / Euripides (ca. 404 BC, Leyden papyrus inv. 510 (1:17)
  • Piece from a satyr play / anon (2nd cent. AD, Oxyrhynchus papyrus 2436) (2:38)
  • Instrumental piece / anon. (2nd cent. AD, Berlin papyrus 6870) (1:54)
  • Dramatic lament on Ajax's suicide / anon. (2nd cent. AD, Berlin payrus 6870 (4:25)
  • Piece mentioning Erinyes / anon. (2nd cent. AD, Oxyrhynchus papyrus 3704 (3:05)
  • Christian hymn / anon. (3rd cent. AD, Oxyrhynchus papyrus 1786 (2:27)
  • Dramatic recitative / anon. (ca. 100 AD, Oslo papyrus inv. 1413) (2:15)
  • Instrumental exercises / anon. (2nd cent. AD, Anonymous Bellermann 97-104) (2:37)
  • Hymn to Nemesis / Mesomedes (1st cent. AD) (1:36)
  • Tragic dialogue on Orestes / anon.(2nd cent. AD, Michigan papyrus inv. 2958 (2:30)
  • Instrumental piece / anon. (2nd cent AD, Berlin papyrus 6870) (2:26)
  • Paean / anon. (late 2nd cent. AD, Berlin papyrus 6870) (1:44)
  • Paean and processional / Limenius (127 BC) (7:18).
Participant:
De Organographia (Gayle Stuwe Neuman and Philip Neuman, voice and instruments, William Gavin, instruments).
Contributor:
Neuman, Philip. Performer
Neuman, Gayle Stuwe. Performer
Gavin, William. Performer
Mesomedes, 2nd cent.
Euripides.
Included Work:
Euripides. Orestes.
Euripides. Iphigenia in Aulis.
Subjects:
Publisher No.:
PRCD1001 Pandourion

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