Music in Ancient Greece and Rome by John G. Landels

I still hope that a great documentary about what is left of ancient civilizations will be made, since this type of media, books etc, do not offer too much, already in a video documentary, we can hear the sounds and see details of the instruments. Like this one, about old pianos.

The main problem is: documents no longer exist, my biggest fear is when he says: * an analysis of scales, intervals and tuning. About, tunning, we know something.

Joining Greece and Rome in one fell swoop, is something really disturbing and curious. It is known that the ancients Greeks were educated in perfectionism and too much eruditized, and that the romantics (Berlioz, Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Paganini) in the 19th century will classify all music and literature of the 18th century as CLASSICS (Haydn, Mozart, Czerny), because of their purpose that was to copy the classic Greek perfection model, to which the Romantics called, they the classics. But Rome, it is known that it was the opposite of the perfection and the commitment with the aesthetic beauty.

I have not read the book yet, but I know a lot about what, no one else know or will ever know. What a pity!


Well, I'm going to read the book and try to understand his idea of it, I liked what I'm reading in the first pages. But, well, no one knows what was the music in ancient Greece or Rome. Sure not, and forget your Hollywood influences, great, but fake.