Music

Music as Artifact

Music Artifacts from Science and Art

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The painter and the sculptor were at the same disadvantage as the poet in that they merely copied at second remove the forms of reality and appeal to the emotions not to reason.

-page 207 of Greek Education

How was music depicted and represented in artifacts and settings in Greece?

HINT 1: Visit the Delphi Museum. Locate an artifact that you think most significantly connects music, literature and art. Make a sketch of it or write a story about it.

Ancient music was highly conventionalized and largely subordinated to words. The various modes were each considered appropriate for specific types of emotion. The Lydian...expresses softness and is used at drinking parties...Dorian manliness, Phrygian temperance...

-page 207 of Greek Education

How do the capabilities of Ancient Greek Instruments reflect the theoretical use of music in Ancient Greece?

HINT 1: Visit the archeology museum at Mykonos. Locate some instruments from Ancient Greece.

How did the Greek artist depict the strong connections and ties that music had to poetry and defining moral character? Do the Ancient Greek Instruments resemble any instruments with which you are familiar?

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