By the way, I tried to find ancient Egyptian music for another video, but it all sounded like something fake out of Casablanca. Can anyone point me to something authentically antique? In the meantime, on to the Venetian Renaissance.
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The problem with ancient music is that, although there are pictographs and remnants of instruments from that time period - know one knows exactly what pitch strings were tuned to, how/what rhythms were performed - there was no standardized notation. Even in western history music notation wasn’t standardized until the 15th - 16th centuries.
The ancient Greeks left written documents about the affect of different modes (major/minor/Phrygian modes, etc) on human emotions but there are several schools of thought on exactly how all this is to be interpreted.
We’re not even sure exactly how ancient Gregorian Chant is to be performed (Catholic music that dates back to between 4th and 9th centuries AD). Tradition and some written treatises give us a good idea of how some of this music is supposed to be performed, but a lot of it is a “best educated guess”.
Of course, archeologists are always turning up new finds that sometimes sheds light on such things abs so I may be ignorant of latest developments.
Thank you. Very interesting video.
Did the ancient Chinese also have ceramic vessels?
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. I learn something from each of your videos.
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