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Notes on video lecture:
Ancient Musical Notation
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on November 14, 2014 (go to class or lectures)
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tablet, scales, changes, Denmark, conceived, 1883, tomb, Turkey, reading, teachers, hardened, pictures, improvised, cuneiform, Renaissance, degrading, taught, pitches, Seikilos, competitive, ages, Renaissance, character
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music from 1500 BC to 1300 AD
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understanding the developments of this period is critical in understanding the development of music
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the era not only covers music of:
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Babylonians, Ancient Greece to the                       
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also covers the development of our musical notation
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changed the way music was                   , composed, and the way it sounded
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Mesopotamia
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going back almost 4000 years almost nobody was                music as we know it today
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music was rarely written down
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Babylonians created the names for
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intervals
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tunings
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basic form of notation
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cuneiform
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written with reed
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fired in kiln and hardened
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many of our records of                    exist today because attacking armies burned the buildings which contained clay tablets which                  in the ensuing fire and thus were preserved for posterity
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Ancient Greece
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there are many                  of instruments from ancient Greek culture
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players with their                 
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players of different         
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players playing in many occasions and situations
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rarely does it show anyone looking at a              or playing from any written notation
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most learned to play by ear through oral tradition
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music was memorized or                     
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developed intervals and systems of scales
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also much written about the philosophy of music in society
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how music should be             
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when certain scales or ranges should be used
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the role of music in schools was discussed
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Plato
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warned that we should be cautious of any fundamental                in music
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Aristotle
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everyone needed to study music but only to become educated and develop                   
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when you become a professional, it becomes                       , which is bad for one's character
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to be paid to perform music is                    to one's character
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fewer than 50 musical pieces or parts of pieces from 350 BC to 400 AD exist
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                 column
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musical setting on          stone
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short but one of the oldest musical pieces
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Greek text with letters on top representing the musical               
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Greek letters stand for notes
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discovered in          in             
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now in National Museum in                in Copenhagen
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much of Greek music and its notation was forgotten until the                       
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almost a thousand years later

Ideas and Concepts:

From the unintended side effects department via tonight's Western Music History class: "Many of our records of Babylonian cuneiform exist today because invading armies would burn buildings they attacked, some of which happened to contain clay tablets that would then be hardened in the ensuing fire and thus be preserved for posterity until discovered thousands of years later."
Ancient Musical Notation
Medieval Chant Notation
Polyphony
Ars Nova, New Rhythm in the 14th Century
Musical Terms and Notation
The Baroque Era (1600-1750)
18th Century Baroque Improvisation
The Bach Family and the International Style of Baroque
Bach's Monumental Chaconne
The Classical Era (1750-1815)