stringed instrument used in ancient Greece. The ASTRA project, standing for Ancient instruments Sound/Timbre Reconstruction Application, has revived an instrument that hasn’t been played or ...

Have you ever wondered what music might have sounded like thousands of years ago, during the height of the Greek and Roman ...

as well as to the instruments’ own pitches, timbres, and tunings. Central to ancient song was its rhythms, and the rhythms of ancient Greek music can be derived from the metres of the poetry.

Koumartzis, 41, is continuing a family tradition focusing on making replicas of ancient Greek musical instruments based on old images on frescoes and vases going back centuries. Sign up here.

a musical notation, and paintings and descriptions of the instruments used to play the tunes. Another scholar, David Creese, has built an ancient Greek musical instrument, and, at the BBC ...

Greek theatre used music with the drama. But what did it sound like? This video can not be played Dr David Creese plays a song originally found on stone inscriptions from ancient Greece on an ...

The organ is a keyboard instrument ... The organ is a relatively old musical instrument, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria (285–222 BC), who invented the water organ. It was played ...

Some of the songs explore Ancient Greek modes (scales) and rhythm patterns, with ideas for recreating these using classroom instruments. The music arrangements contain ‘ancient’ sounds of ...

EVROPOS, Greece, - In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before covering it with animal hide and attaching nine strings ...

Dr David Creese plays a song originally found on stone inscriptions from ancient Greece ... and not the music. Imagine if we could then reconstruct the music, rediscover the instruments that ...