De musicis: An Annotated Bibliography of Works on Ancient Greek and Roman Music

De musicis: An Annotated Bibliography of Works on Ancient Greek and Roman Music

Founding Bibliographer (2000-2009):  Gianfranco Mosconi; bibliographies for the years 2000-2005 (lists revised and supplemented by Maggi Creese)
Current Bibliographer (from 2009):  Maggi Creese 

Notes to the user:

Many bibliographical entries include an abstract, whose author is indicated at the bottom of the summary itself, after the full stop, between square brackets (e.g. in this manner: '...end of the summary. [Gianfranco Mosconi]')

Sometimes, the summary is an abstract which was already available within the text of the item, or which was taken from some other source, such as another internet database; in these cases, the source of the abstract is also indicated in square brackets (e.g. '...end of the summary. [Gianfranco Mosconi]  [POIESIS]')

When an abstract is not included but available within the text of the item itself, this is indicated in the abstract field.  Page numbers are provided for abstracts that are printed elsewhere in the volume.

The bibliography is managed by Maggi Creese, MOISA Bibliographer; corrections and proposed additions may be addressed to her at bibl...@moisasociety.org .  Notice of forthcoming publications is welcome: please consider including a brief (c. 300-350 word) abstract of your work. 

Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song

[First posted in AWOL 27 October 2010, updated 24 February 2021]

Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song

Welcome to the website of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song. The Network was founded in 2007 at the initiative of Ewen Bowie (University of Oxford) and André Lardinois (Radboud University Nijmegen) with the aim of promoting the exchange of information and ideas between scholars engaged in the study of archaic and classical lyric, elegiac and iambic poetry.

Today, it is overseen by Lucia Athanassaki (University of Crete) and Timothy Power (Rutgers University), who act as the Network’s choragoi, and its principal activity is the organisation of annual conferences on themes identified as key to advancement of the field by an international team of core members or choreutai.

Additionally, this website hosts a Bibliography of scholarship on Greek song published by its members and additional resources from around the web.

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CORPUS RHYTHMORUM MUSICUM (SAEC. IV-IX)

CORPUS RHYTHMORUM MUSICUM (SAEC. IV-IX) I: SONGS FROM NON-LITURGICAL SOURCES - CANTI DI TRADIZIONE NON LITURGICA 1. Lyrics / Canzoni
Digital edition coordinated by FRANCESCO STELLA
Musical edition by SAM BARRETT
Digital reproduction of the manuscripts
Audio recordings by choirs Laus cordis and Palma choralis
directed by GIACOMO BAROFFIO and KIM EUN JU
Software by LUIGI TESSAROLO

This is the website of the textual and musical philological database of the earliest medieval Latin songs called Corpus Rythmorum Musicum: the printed and cdrom edition of the I series (songs from non-liturgical sources) has been published by SISMEL Florence in 2007, including digital reproductions of the manuscripts that here cannot always be displayed for copyright reasons. From 2011 the data of the next editions (computistic poems, rhythmical hymns) will be uploaded as they will be produced and processed by the research team to music. It presents for the first time, in print and in a digital format, texts along with the relevant music. It deals with the first Latin compositions in verses that are no longer quantitative, but rhythmic – that is to say based upon accentual and syllabic criteria. This tradition begins in the fourth century with the Psalmus responsorius of the Barcellona Papyrus and the Psalmus contra Donatistas by Augustine. It finds its first mature systematization in the Carolingian era before exploding a few centuries later into the outpouring of European lyric song (both in Latin and the vernacular) that reaches high points in texts such as the Carmina Burana up to the Fleurs du mal. From within this tradition, which forms the precursor to modern western poetry, the Corpus firstly collects those verses that have a musical tradition – that is to say those in which we find neumatic notation in the codices that record the songs; we can define this material, in a certain sense, as the first "songs" from a European lyric tradition that have left a written trace.

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Open Access Journal: NEMO-Online Near-Eastern Musicology Online

 [First posted in AWOL 29 August 2016, updated 26 June 2018]

NEMO-Online: Near-Eastern Musicology Online

ISSN: 2397-9887 (Online)

ISSN: 2265-6561 (Print)

ICONEA, CERMAA and PLM are research groups based in London ‎–‎ UK (ICONEA ), in Beirut ‎–‎ Lebanon (CERMAA ) and in Paris ‎–‎ France (PLM).

• ICONEA (International Conference of Near-Eastern Archaeomusicology) specialises in Near and Middle-eastern archaeomusicology.
• CERMAA (CEntre de Recherches sur les Musiques Arabes et Apparentées) is dedicated to research on maqām music and modality.
• PLM (Patrimoines et Langages Musicaux) is a professional research group of musicologists, most of them being also musicians, working at Sorbonne Université in the realm of history of music, ethnomusicology, music analysis and/or theory of music.

In 2011, ICONEA and CERMAA merged and launched a new periodical of Near and Middle-Eastern music research, in the widest sense of the term, under the name of  NEMO-Online (Near-Eastern Musicology 

Articles

 

(click on the title of each article for the corresponding pdf version / cliquer sur les titres des articles pour télécharger les pdf).

NEMO-Online Vol. 1 No. 1 Reissue 2016/12 : (all pdf articles in this volume are bookmarked for titles and subtitles / tous les articles au format pdf de ce volume contiennent des marque-pages correspondant aux titres et sous-titres)

Editor’s letter / Éditorial / كلمة الناشرين : Questioning Modality / La modalité en question /  بخصوص المقامية
Contents / contenu / ملخّص :

• Erik Marchand : “Une musique modale de tradition populaire en Occident – Tribune”, NEMO-Online11 |2012-11| p. 5–10.

• François Picard : “Back to modality. Musical Modes Revisited”, NEMO-Online11 |2012-11| p. 11–18.

• Markos Skoulios : “Modern theory and notation of Byzantine chanting tradition – A Near Eastern musicological perspective”, NEMO-Online11 |2012-11| p. 19–38.

• Jacob Olley : “Modal diversity in early Ottoman music – The case of makâm Sabâ”, NEMO-Online11 |2012-11| p. 39–54.

• Rosy Azar Beyhom : “La modalité écrite. Un exemple avec Mīkhāʾīl Mashāqa au XIX^e siècle”, NEMO-Online11 |2012-11| p. 55–66.

• Amine Beyhom : “Kashf al-Asrār Ꜥan Karkarat al-Aḥbār fī Taʾwīl al-Adwārكشف الأسرار عن كركرةِ الأحبار في تأويل الأدوار”, NEMO-Online11 |2012-11| p. 67–88.

• Richard Dumbrill : “Modus Vivendi”, NEMO-Online11 |2012-11| p. 89–116.

NEMO-Online Vol. 2 Nos. 2&3 Reissue 2016/12 : (all pdf articles in this volume are bookmarked for titles, subtitles and figures / tous les articles au format pdf de ce volume contiennent des marque-pages correspondant aux titres, sous-titres et figures)

Editor’s letter / Éditorial / كلمة الناشرين : Modality and Musical Myths / Modalité et mythes musicaux /  المقامية والخرافات الموسيقية

Contents / contenu / ملخّص :

• NEMO-Online No. / n^o 2 : Modality in all its forms / La modalité dans tous ses états / المقامية في مختلف أشكالها
  
  • Amine Beyhom : “Un lexique de la modalité,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 2 2 |2013-11| p. 5–24.
  • Margo Schulter : “Systematist Buzurg and its Relatives: Notes on a Zalzalian Modal Genre‎,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 2 2 |2013-11| p. 25–49.
  • Richard Dumbrill : “Mesopotamian Sonic Proto-Theory,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 2 2 |2013-11| p. 51–61.

• NEMO-Online No. / n^o 3 : Facts and Fiction in Near-Eastern music / Légendes et vérités dans les musiques du Proche-Orient / حقائق وخرافات في موسيقى الشرق الأدنى
  
  • Sandra Fleury : “Le traitement de la musique dans l’iconographie processionnelle du sacrifice grec : entre la thusia et le sacrifice humain,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 2 3 |2014-11| p. 63–74.
  • Richard Dumbrill : “The myth of the ‘zither’ on ‎the Nimrud Pyxis – and ‎others,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 2 3 |2014-11| p. 75–85.
  • Amine Beyhom : “Dossier : Influence des théories ‎européanisées du xix^e siècle sur la ‎notation et la pratique des modes ‎de la musique arabe et d’autres ‎musiques, à travers la mise en ‎exergue du mythe du genre ḥijāz ‎semi-tonal,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 2 3 |2014-11| p. 87–177.
    • Power Point show for the dossier (59 MB)
  • Rosy Azar Beyhom : “A musical tradition for the 22^nd century : A report on a cultural Lebanese initiative‎,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 2 3 |2014-11| p. 179–181.

NEMO-Online Vol. 3 : (all pdf articles in this volume are bookmarked for titles, subtitles and figures / tous les articles au format pdf de ce volume contiennent des marque-pages correspondant aux titres, sous-titres et figures)

Editor’s letter / Éditorial / كلمة الناشرين : Instrumental facture & Evolution of musicology and ethnomusicology / Facture instrumentale & Évolution de la musicologie et de l’ethnomusicologie /  صناعة الآلات وتطوّر علم الموسيقولوجيا والإتنوموسيقولوجيا (updated)

NEMO-Online No. 4 contents / contenu / ملخّص : Instrumental facture from its sources in the Ancient Near East to modern times / La facture instrumentale au Moyen-Orient, des origines à nos jours / صناعة الآلات الموسيقية في الشرق الأوسط، من البدايات وحتى يومنا هذا

• Jean During : “The Baluchi benju, a new traditional instrument,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 3 4 |2015-11| p. 5–12. (updated)
  • Music excerpt.

• Rachid Cherif : “La musique classique tunisienne et la dimension de l’authenticité,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 3 4 |2015-11| p. 13–28. (updated)
  • Music excerpt 1 (Initial excerpt from / Extrait initial de Khatm binaire de nubat al-asbahan).
  • Music excerpt 2 (Initial excerpt from / Extrait initial de Khatm binaire de nubat al-asbahan).
  • Music excerpt 3 (Khatm ternaire de nubat raml al-maya).
  • Music excerpt 4 (Khatm ternaire de nubat raml al-maya).

NEMO-Online No. 5 contents / contenu / ملخّص : Musicology and Ethnomusicology: evolutions and problems / Musicologies et Ethnomusicologies : évolutions et problèmes / الموسيقولوجيا والإتنوموسيقولوجيا، التطوّر والمشاكل

• Bruno de Florence : “Essay: General Remarks on ‘Cultural Appropriation’,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 3 5 |2016-11| p. 29–31.

• Amine Zouari : “البنيّة الإيقَـاعيّة في الإنشَاد الصّوفي: جَدليّة التأثِير والـتَّأثُّر,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 3 5 |2016-11| p. 33–45.
  • Music excerpt 1 (Khif el Tira).
  • Music excerpt 2 (Rhythm No. 1 / Rythme n°1).
  • Music excerpt 3 (Rhythm No. 2 / Rythme n°2).
  • Music excerpt 4 (Rhythm No. 3 / Rythme n°3).
  • Music excerpt 5 (Rhythm No. 4 / Rythme n°4).
  • Music excerpt 6 (Rhythm No. 5 / Rythme n°5).
  • Music excerpt 7 (Rhythm No. 6 / Rythme n°6).

• Adeline Poussin : “‎Nouveaux champs de l’ethnomusicologie : une nouvelle approche des musiques occidentales ne relevant pas de la ‘tradition populaire’,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 3 5 |2016-11| p. 47–52.

• Amine Beyhom : “Dossier: Hellenism as an Analytical tool for Occicentrism (in musicology),” Near Eastern Musicology Online 3 5 |2016-11| p. 53–275. (V2)
  • Power Point show for the dossier (210MB – V2).

NEMO-Online No. 6 (Vol. 4)

• Amine Beyhom : “A Hypothesis for the Elaboration of Heptatonic Scales,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 4 6 |2017-05| p. 5–90.
  • Power Point Show including audio examples for Scales with limited transposition
  • Appendix I: Complete database – quarter-tone model with reduced alphabet of intervals
  • Appendix J: Generation of systems with the extended alphabet from 2 to 24 quarter-tones
  • Appendix K: Generation of systems with 17^ths of the octave, full alphabet

• Richard Dumbrill : “The Truth about Babylonian Music,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 4 6 |2017-08| p. 91–121.
  • Mixed score (Tonogram reproduction of the intonations in parallel with the score) of Hurrian song H6 (Richard Dumbrill-Amine Beyhom-Rosy Azar Beyhom) – pdf
  • Midi reproduction of Hurrian song H6 including intonations (Richard Dumbrill-Amine Beyhom-Rosy Azar Beyhom) – mp3
  • Recording of Hurrian song H6 with singer Lara Jokhadar (Richard Dumbrill-Amine Beyhom-Rosy Azar Beyhom) – mp3

• Bruno Deschênes : “A preliminary approach to the analysis of honkyoku, the solo repertoire of the Japanese shakuhachi,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 4 6 |2017-08| p. 123–143.
  • Daiwa gaku (First analyzed song – By Bruno Deschênes) – mp3
  • Shika no tone (Second analyzed song – By the Ensemble Matsu Také with Michel Zenchiku Dubeau) – mp3

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THESAVRVS MVSICARVM LATINARVM

THESAVRVS MVSICARVM LATINARVM 
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This is an interim version of the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML 2016 beta), provided as an emergency measure since the unavailability of the 'classic' version of the TML (consequence of a malicious attack in December 2015), and while a new version is currently under the final stages of development. This site features only a few of the functionalities that will be available in the official release. Please understand the limitations of a resource still under construction; any feedback is always welcome, but at this stage we would be grateful if you could let us know especially about major defects in functionality.

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Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae

Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae

University of Copenhagen, Saxo Institute, Dept. of Greek and Latin

Detail of the so-called 'Chartres fragment' with musical notation, beginning of the sticheron Ἡ σοφία τοῦ Θεοῦ. Fourth plagal mode. Image of the whole piece (232Kb).

The editorial program of MMB began in 1935 under the direction of Carsten Høeg. Since then, the University of Copenhagen has housed continuous research activities in the field of Byzantine chant. MMB is published under the auspices of Union Académique Internationale and has been suppoarted by the Carlsberg Foundation.

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Ancient Greek Music

Ancient Greek Music
By Stefan Hagel 

The Melodies

Here you find a computer-generated edition of the extant melodies.

The Instruments

These pages contain sound examples from reconstructed instruments:

• Aulos
• Cithara

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Open Access Journal: Psaltiki

Psaltiki: The Online Journal

 

P s a l t i k i  promotes the advancement of the Hellenic Psaltic Art, also known as Byzantine and post-Byzantine Chant, and Hymnology by facilitating, cultivating and supporting its academic study, as well as initiating projects that transmit the psaltic heritage.

Our mission is to educate, empower and connect the next generation of chanters for tomorrow by providing knowledge, resources and visibility today.

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