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.
Lyres of Ur
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 name is Menat because there is a egyptian goddess that is call Menat, it’s made of fayenza, leather or bronze. It was more or less in the years 1390-1353. The region is of Amenhotep, they used it for necklace or amulets. It’s of the middle age and it has lasted until now. Consist of a saucer, it is attached with a chain tied to a counterweight at the rear end on the back of the person who is carrying it. The Menat was held in the hand by its counterpoise and uses as a rattle by Hathor´s priestesses, It was also worn as a protective amulet particularly by Apis bulls. Menat, in EGYPTIAN RELIGION, a necklace composed of many rows of beads and a AMULET, usually hung at the back of the neck as a counterpoise. The amulet, frequently made of glazed WARE and often found buried with the dead, was a symbol of divine protection. Among women it was believed to foster fruitfulness and health, while for men it signified virility. The Menat typically included an aegis attached to beaded strings .The other ends of the strings were tied to a COUNTERWEIGHT that dangled on the
wearer´s back. It was often inscribed or bore depictions of deities associated with
Hathor.
SYSTRUM
The Systrum is an Egyptian instrument from the 2500 BC, it have
been discovered near Tbilisi, Georgia.
It consists of a handle and a U-shaped metal frame, made of brass or bronze.
Systrum symbolize her role as a goodness of dance, joy, and festivity.
It sounds when you shake it, and it's literally meaning is "that which
is being shaken"
Shawn
The shawn is a double-reed, loud-sounding instrument, the predecessor of the oboe. It first emerged in the 13th century and, by the late Middle Ages, was the most important loud-sounding instrument in use, occupying a place in dance bands and ensembles for municipal and court ceremonies. And is used for finding a place in dance bands as well as ensembles for municipal and court ceremonies. The shawm’s origins can be traced back to ancient civilizations, including Egypt and Mesopotamia. Its design evolved over time, and it eventually found its place in medieval Europe and the Middle
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Mizmar
Bow harp
The adungu also called the edongo or ennanga or
bow harp stringed musical instrument
This instrument called bow harp is created in Egypt
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the harp is a musical instrument of the string family. Harp date back as far as 3500 BC.
Some harp frames have a body that was carved from one single piece of wood…
Harpscan have a pedal which can help to raise or lower the pitch of a string
Greece
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
Kithara
The kithara is an ancient Greek instrument that was a seven-stringed professional version of the lyre. Hermes, was the inventor of the kithara. The god Apollo played the kithara all the time.
As opposed to the simpler lyre the Kithara was primary used by professional musicians, called khitarodes.
In modern Greek the word Kithara has come to mean “guitar”. The Kithara is made of seven strings of equal length and a solidly built wooden body, usually with a flat base.
Aulos
The Aulos was an instrument of Ancient greece. Was invented by Atenea, the aulos is made of wood or cane, the aulos has four holes and a tongue in each tube, it was a wind instrument used to the glorification of gods and worshiping god Dionysus that was god of wine, fun and theater.
Cretan Lyra
It was a pear-shaped instrument whose number of strings is between three and five, it was played in a vertical position. The oldest was from the year 1190 BC. It was invented by Hermes who gave it to Apollo in exchange for the caduceus. It was invented in ancient Greece, it is a bowed string instrument that has three strings of Greek origin. It is a basic instrument of the traditional music of Crete and other islands in the Dodecanese and the Aegean archipelago, in Greece. The Cretan lyra is the surviving form of the Byzantine lyra, which was used during the Medieval Times in Greece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwvEndEBmoM
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The Cretan lyra is a small, pear-shaped, three-string fiddle, held upright and played by stopping the strings from the side with fingernails.
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EPIGONION
An epigonion was an ancient forty-stringed instrument. Possibly of similar characteristics to the harp, made of wood, introduced by Epigonus in the 6th century.
The epigonion was invented in Greece by Epigonus, a Greek musician from Ambracia in Epirus, who was admitted to citizenship in Sicyon in recognition of his great musical ability.
Each string have a different sound.
Facts:
Do you now…
-The epigonion is a string instrument?
-The name of the epigonion comes from a Epigonus, the one that invented?
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Crotalum
Rome
a single melody and did not
have harmony.
pantomimus.
The tympanum was an percussion instrument circular similar to a tambourine that used at 330-360BC. in Greece and Rome. Tympanum is made of wood,wol,rattles and bells,measure 30-45cm.
The goddess Cibeles that represent harmony and Cibeles have a tympanum.
Most images show women playing the instrument.
How do you play the tympanum?
Hitting the heads with a special stick or drumstick called a "timbal stick.”
TYMPANUM
Lituus
It was an old Etruscan brass wind instrument with a high pitch, similar to the Celtic carnyx. Later it was used by the Romans as a signal trumpet used in military cavalry and to accompany processional music and in funerary rites.
Rome
Tradition records the lituus as a priestly trumpet that was used by Romulus when he proclaimed the title of his city.
Cornu
Cornu, is a large metal horn of ancient Rome, used as a military and ceremonial instrument. It was 11 feet
the cornu such as other instruments like the tuba
were used to give signals in the ancient Roman military.
The translation of cornu is ``cuerno´.´In ancient Rome it was made of a real horn but then in was made of brass.The sound of a Roman cornu is produced by the vibrations of the lips, a procedure that generates a buzzing sound quite similar to that made by a french horn's player.
Roman Tuba
The Roman tuba (from Latin tubus, meaning "tube") was a brass instrument from Ancient Rome that was used as a trumpet to give military signals. It is a quite different instrument from the modern tuba. The tuba began to be manufactured around 500 BC. C. Although it is similar to the Greek salpinx, the origin of the Roman tuba comes from the etru civilization.
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