From: Scott Sherwood (scottsherwoodjobsearch@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Oct 04 1999 - 22:43:25 EDT
> And if I decide to
> work my way through
> this volume, would questions concerning grammar and
> translation of these
> cantica be appropriate for b-greek?
I would just like to day that I have studied ( as an
amateur ) ancient Greek music text both sacred and
secular, and also the renaissance and medieval uses of
those ancient texts.
So I would like to declare an interest in the topic,
though I more than suspect it is off topic for
B-greek.
I notice that the study of the ancient church music of
Byzantium, Spain, Antioch, Alexandria, etc helps to
shed light ( I think ) on the dispersion of liturgy,
tradition, and biblical text in the early church.
By studying the diffusion of something "off-topic" (
something I happen to like, the roots of classical
music ) that shares historical space with the church,
I find I accidentally get a better understanding of
the historical context of B-greek, and learn two
things at once.
If anybody else out there is interested in ancient
greek music text ( sacred music or secular theory ),
I'd love to hear about it, although I doubt as a
subject it deserves much space on the list.
Scott Sherwood
Massachusetts
PS- I have read selections from:
Aristoxenus on Music
Ptolemy on Music
St Augustine on Music
Plato
Aristotle
Boethius
Guido D'Arrezzo
Vincenzo Galilei "On Ancient and Modern singing"
Hucbald
Giovanni Bardi of Florence
Carlo Valgulio's proem to pseudo-Plutarch's Music
Girolamo Mei on Aristoxenus
Mozarabic chant
Gallic chant
the Magnificat
Byzantine chant
etc etc.
I have built a working model of Ptolemy's ancient
geometric proof of the consonant ratios of the Greater
Perfect System of modes, and I find that some of the
ancient greek terminology here carries through church
history into the renaissance and reformation.
Apologies for being off-topic.
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