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Re:Ancient Greek ‘pop culture’ discovery rewrites history of... by BoumTAC on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @01:55PM (#28542232)
Do we know what ancient music sound like ?
Re:Ancient Greek ‘pop culture’ discovery rewrites history of... by yyyk on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @06:10PM (#28545050)
Sumerian music had a notation, a bit of which was recovered. Interpretation is however difficult and not yet agreed upon.

https://openculture.com/2014/07/the-oldest-song-in-the-world...

Re:Ancient Greek ‘pop culture’ discovery rewrites history of... by cblconfederate on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @02:37PM (#28542648)
A little older than sibling comment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph
Re:Ancient Greek ‘pop culture’ discovery rewrites history of... by sherr on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @02:36PM (#28542639)
I believe it is still quite a hard thing to be truly certain of but there are some indications around. Harmonia Mundi produced an album a few years ago that included some ancient Greek music [1].

[1] La Musique De L'Antiquité https://www.discogs.com/Various-La-Musique-De-LAntiquit%C3%A...

Re:Ancient Greek ‘pop culture’ discovery rewrites history of... by irrational on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @06:50PM (#28545423)
There is an audiobook called How to Listen to and Understand Great Music. The author starts way way back with the oldest music we have and then little by little moves forward to more modern times showing how music grew little by little over the millennia. The audiobooks includes audio excerpts of the music. I found it fascinating up until the classical music time when it started bogging down and going a lot slower.
Re:Ancient Greek ‘pop culture’ discovery rewrites history of... by ggm on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @09:35PM (#28546879)
Flutes retain their tonal function despite age. Bone flutes from times past exist.

Flinders Petrie museum in UCL (London) has some stuff on ancient music I think.

The Taipei National Palace Museum collection includes bronze tuned bells (gongs? cymbals?)

Re:Ancient Greek ‘pop culture’ discovery rewrites history of... by batrachos on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @02:48PM (#28542815)
We have the notation for a small amount of Hellenistic and Roman era music, and I think a tiny little bit of Euripides. We'll never know what Sappho sounded like, though.
Re:Ancient Greek ‘pop culture’ discovery rewrites history of... by ARandomerDude on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @02:32PM (#28542609)
Yes, actually. Here's one example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Re:Ancient Greek ‘pop culture’ discovery rewrites history of... by sherr on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @02:37PM (#28542660)
Will Astley ever get old?