How did ancient Greek music sound?

BBC News ^ | 10-22-2013 | Armand D'Angour

[Renfield]

The music of ancient Greece, unheard for thousands of years, is being brought back to life by Armand D'Angour, a musician and tutor in classics at Oxford University. He describes what his research is discovering.

"Suppose that 2,500 years from now all that survived of the Beatles songs were a few of the lyrics, and all that remained of Mozart and Verdi's operas were the words and not the music.

Imagine if we could then reconstruct the music, rediscover the instruments that played them, and hear the words once again in their proper setting, how exciting that would be.

This is about to happen with the classic texts of ancient Greece....

[Bigg Red]

Fascinating stuff. I enjoyed hearing the professor’s audio file.

[beebuster2000]

thks

[blam]

I've often wondered if some ancient sounds could have been captured in pottery. Could voice vibrations/etc from the potters have been captured in the wet clay...like the grooves on a vinyl record?
They would have been seriously crude but....with today's technology?

[Condor51]

How did ancient Greek music sound?

Hmmm?..I don't know.
But if it can't be played on one of these.....

I don't care.
Fender Stratocaster©. If they're good enough for Eric Clapton, they're good enough for me ;-)