Ancient Music refers to the musical systems that were developed in the ancient past, literate cultures, including Mesopotamia, Persia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, which replaced prehistoric music.

Mesopotamia

Music has always been present in the History of the humanity, but is MESOPOTAMIA where a great variety of wind, string and percussion instrument emerge.

The musicians began to make the oldest known

musical annotation.

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LYRES OF UR

The Lyres of Ur is a group of four string instruments excavated in a fragmentary condition at the Royal Cemetery at Ur.It’s an instrument of rope.First remains are from 3.500 BC in Mesopotamia.The lyre has 27 notes.It is said that the lyre is associated with the gods, with celestial music.

Music was as important to the ancient Egyptians as it is in our modern society.

They brought music to their religious ceremonies, but it was also played and performed in workshops, palaces, the farms, on the battlefield and even in their tombs.

Egypt

Menat

The Menat is a necklace composed of many rows of beads and an amulet, usually hung at the back of the neck as a counterweight .

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The Menat was discovered in 1910

Shawm

The Shawm is a double -reed wind instrument that was used in the Middle East possibly 2000 years ago.

The walls of the instrument end with a triangular shape

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Systrum:

The sistrum is an instrument made up of a bronze or other metal frame in the shape of a horseshoe, with a handle to hold it, and with several sliding metal rods to collide with the frame when shaken like a rattle. In fact, its name comes from the Greek word seîstron, which means “something that shakes”.

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Mizmar

It is a single or double reed wind instrument.

The mizmar instrument was discovered in the 8th century.

Mizmars are usually played in Egypt both at weddings and as an accompaniment to belly dancing .

In Morocco there is a similar instrument called ghaita

The mizmar has a high-pitched, shrill sound, and the breath is used to make it sound .

Bow harp

It was found in ancient Egypt (2500 BC)

I found it

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Harps have been known since ancient times in Asia, Africa and Europe; They date back to at least 3500 BC.

This instrument has its origins in Egypt and Greece,

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Greece

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The music of Ancient Greece was an art that was present in society almost universally: in celebrations, funerals, in the theater, through popular music or through the ballads presented by epic poems. Therefore, they had an important function in the lives of the inhabitants of Ancient Greece. By Alex

Aulos

The Aulos was the wind instrument par excellence in Greece.

It’s a double flute that Ancient Greek civilizations played to made music.It had 5 holes in each flute,the 2 flutes are connected by a rope.

Ancient Greek thought that Atenea[A Greek god] invented the Aulos.

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Cretan lyra

Epigonion

CROTALUM

In classical antiquity, a Crotalum was a kind of clapper or castanet used in religious dances by groups in ancient Greece and elsewhere, including the Korybantes.

kithara

The kithara Latinized as cithara, was an ancient Greek musical instrument in the yoke lutes family. It was a seven-stringed professional version of the lyre, which was regarded as a rustic, or folk instrument, appropriate for teaching music to beginners.

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Rome

• Much of the Roman music was adopted by Greek musical traditions.
• The Romans followed Ancient Greek methods of using four notes and different rhythms.
• Little Ancient Roman music has survived, and the written music is rarely found.
• Roman music consisted of

a single melody and did not

have harmony.

• One form of music that was
• used with dance was called

pantomimus.

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LITUUS

El litus antiguamente se usaba para señales de caballería militar, los sonidos y notas producidos por el litus están destinados a coordinar los movimientos de los buques de guerra durante las batallas navales. Es un instrumento de viento-metal hecho de bronce etrusco

de timbre agudo mide aprox.140 cm. La forma

externa está en forma de J.

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HECHO POR IZAN E ALEX A.

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Cornu

The instrument consisted of a tube arranged in the shape of the letter “G”. Its origin seems to have been Etruscan, like the lituus and also like that instrument, it is said that it was a derivative of the Roman tuba, the straight trumpet.

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They discovered it in the years 120 y 128 A.D.

LYRE

The lyre is a stringed instrument that is played with both hands or using a plectrum[pua].

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The lyre was created in the third millennium BCE

Usually turtle-shaped or semi-circular

Roman tuba

The tuba was a straight military trumpet, made around 500 BCE. Its straight shape was in contrast to that of other Roman wind instruments such as the buccina or military cornu, which more closely resembled the modern tuba by curving around the body of the instrument.