Wanbli wrote:..."Water Though Frozen"
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Plato wrote:Our music was once divided into its proper forms...It was not permitted to exchange the melodic styles of these established forms and others. Knowledge and informed judgment penalized disobedience. There were no whistles, unmusical mob-noises, or clapping for applause. The rule was to listen silently and learn; boys, teachers, and the crowd were kept in order by threat of the stick. . . . But later, an unmusical anarchy was led by poets who had natural talent, but were ignorant of the laws of music...Through foolishness they deceived themselves into thinking that there was no right or wrong way in music, that it was to be judged good or bad by the pleasure it gave. By their works and their theories they infected the masses with the presumption to think themselves adequate judges. So our theatres, once silent, grew vocal, and aristocracy of music gave way to a pernicious theatrocracy...the criterion was not music, but a reputation for promiscuous cleverness and a spirit of law-breaking.
Jordan~ wrote:Ancient Greek punk rock. My desire for a time machine grows ever stronger.
Weirdelves wrote:When I was studying classical Greek tragedy last year my tutor played us a recording of some people re-interpreting some of the Delphic hymns or something and it sounded pretty good to me. Lots of harmonising and a surprisingly throaty percussion given what wuzzy's saying.
doublewuzzy wrote:There's also a theory that Orpheus was a real person. Apparently the Orpheus myth contains a lot of details that are common in shamanic traditions - a journey to the underworld/afterlife, dancing/music, a rescue - so it's possible that he was actually a person, and a shaman at that. It's suggested that he is the one who brought shamanic practices from Africa back to Greece, but substituted some elements with others to make it more appealing to the intellectualism of the Greeks (again, melody over rhythm, lyre over drums, passivity over participation). It was also the origin of the idea of the healing power of music through simply perceiving it, versus African traditions of music's healing power through participation/trance-dancing. REALLY CRAZY STUFF.
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