Ancient Music refers to the muscal 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 Menat are an instrument but it was also
a necklace worn by the goddess Hathor. But sometimes in the parties he used the Menat as a rattle. The Menat have accessories inserted with a ribbon, which is tied to a counterweight and that is a Menat. Did you know what? The Menat counterweight has an average length of 14.7 cm and was created in 870 BC if incredible. Of course we have some examples of the Menat.
Made by Alba García and Alba Gutierrez
Tutankhamun's Trumpets
Tutankhamun's trumpets are a pair of trumpets. The trumpets, one of sterling silver and one of bronze or copper and the only known surviving examples from ancient Egypt. The trumpets were found in 1922 by Howard Carter in the tomb's antechamber in a large chest containing various military objects. The silver trumpet was subsequently found in the burial chamber. The bronze trumpet may be made of copper. The silver trumpet has a length of :
57.2 cm, the bronze/copper trumpet is about 7.6 cm shorter. Their tubes are around 1.3 cm diameter at the mouth end, increasing to about 2.5 cm before flaring out to 10.2 cm
Music that had been silent for 3000 years to be heard once more.
Systrum
The Mizmar
A mizmar is a single or double reed
wind instrument.
It was used to ummon
warriors or to announce war; also used to
proclaim the arrival of the pharaoh
or high dignitaries, and it’s one
of the oldest instruments in Egypt.
Made by:
Leire and Ana
Bow harp
The harp is a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonant frame and a variable series of strings stretched between the lower and upper sections. This instrument has its origins in Egypt and Greece, whose civilizations were the first to theorize musical harmonization, and allowed them to develop the techniques to build chordophone instruments. The sound is obtained by touching the strings with the fingers. The musician who plays it is called a harpist.
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
It’s a musical instrument of string and is family of the lyres.
This instrument made in GREECE and
have 7 strings and is made of wood.
To play the Kithara you have to move your right arm and you touch softly the instrument
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AULOS
The aulós was the wind instrument par excellence in Greece. It was invented by atenea.It was made of wood or cane and had four holes and a double tongue in each of the two tubes.When played in pairs the pipes were held one in each hand and sounded simultaneously.In Ancient Greece, the aulos was used to accompany some forms of poetry .
Epigonion
It is a greek instrument.
Was an ancient stringed instrument
mentioned, by Athenaeus (183 B.C.), probably a psaltery.
The Epigonion have 24 string.
It is a wooden instrument that musicians used to
play with their fingers similar to the modern harp.
Here is a video:
Made by:
Daniela Gil.
Alejandra Casalengua.
CROTALUM
Crotalum is a wooden or metal shells held in one hand and manipulated like castanets, though probably not as rapidly.
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Rome
Pibau pan
Pibau pan was an ancient greek instrument that the shepherds of the Cícladas islands started to use on the third millenium BCE.
It is composed by many tubes of different sizes made up of reeds, united with a rope.
Here is a video:
Lituus
Lituus is a wind instrument.
Another Roman trumpet was the lituus, a J-shaped instrument whose immediate origin was also Etruscan. Its inspiration, visible in its earliest examples, was a simple hollow cane with a cow horn for a bell. Similar instruments are also found in China, where the zhajiao adds a shallow and flat mouthpiece…
The lituus was discovered in 1763.
Cornu
The cornu was created in the years 120 and 128 B.C.
Cornu is a instrument made of copper used for the roman army mostly for the communication of the orders to troops in battle.
Lyra is a Roman and Greek instrument, also is it a striped and musical instrument used by the ancients, composed of several ropes tense that have to use with the hands.
LYRA
Roman tuba.
The Roman tuba was a straight military trumpet, made around 500 BC.
The Roman tuba is
used by the Romans in wars to announce one thing or another.
This is an example
of the instrument that we
are presenting to you.
Interesting facts
This instrument measures around 117 cm.
Made by Aimar and Uriel
It is an wind instrument made mainly of metal.