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MUSIC OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS
Pandourion Records CD PRCD1001
This CD by De Organographia is a considerably
more recent and (in a number of ways) quite different treatment of the ancient Greek material than is the recording
by Atrium Musicae de Madrid. Instead of a vocal ensemble playing various instruments, there is but one vocalist
(Gayle Stuwe Neuman) and two instrumentalists (Plilip Neuman and WilliamGavin) in the ensemble. The reconstructions
of period instruments used (featured in the liner notes and on this Web site) are impressive in number and tone,
if not as numerous or variegated as on the Atrium Musicae
recording. The liner notes are informative and sufficient for their purpose, and there are actually more musical
works available than on the earlier recording.
Music of the Ancient Greeks, as well as another recording by De Organographia,
Music of the Ancient Sumerians, Egyptians & Greeks,
are available directly from the distributor,
North Pacific Music, which also offers other recordings of
early, avant-garde, classical, jazz, new age and world music. It also
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LIST OF
TRACKS:
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Salpinx call, the "Sappho
Painter" (5th c. B.C.) |
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Hymn to the Sun,
Mesomedes (1st c. A.D.) |
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Dramatic speech,
Anonymous (c. 100 A.D.) |
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Song, Seikilos (1st
c. A.D.) |
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Invocation of the
Muse, Anonymous (2nd c. A.D.) |
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Invocation of
Calliope and Apollo, Mesomedes (1st c. A.D.) |
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Dramatic fragment:
Anonymous (3rd c. A.D.) |
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Dramatic fragment:
Anonymous (3rd c. A.D.) |
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Choral ode from
"Orestes", Euripides (c. 408 B.C.) |
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Choral ode from "Iphegeneia
at Aulis", Euripides (c. 404 B.C.) |
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Piece from a satyr
play, Anonymous (2nd c. A.D.) |
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Instrumental piece,
Anonymous (2nd c. A.D.) |
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Dramatic lament on
Ajax's suicide, Anonymous (late 2nd c. A.D.) |
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Piece mentioning
Erinyes, Anonymous (2nd c. A.D.) |
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Christian hymn,
Anonymous (3rd c. A.D.) |
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Dramatic recitative,
Anonymous (c. 100 A.D.) |
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Instrumental
exercises, Anon. (2nd c. A.D.), Anon. Bellerman 97-104 |
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Hymn to Nemesis,
Mesomedes (1st c. A.D.) |
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Tragic dialogue on
Orestes, Anonymous (2nd c. A.D.) |
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Instrumental piece,
Anonymous (2nd c. A.D.) |
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Paean, Anonymous
(late 2nd c. A.D.) |
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Paean and
processional, Limenius (127 B.C.) |
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Updated December 27, 2011 |
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