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• Music of Ancient Greece - Among the ancient civilizations, the Greeks left behind the most substantial amount of surviving evidence about their music. Records of their music were found in their literary, philosophical, and scientific writings
• Seikilos - oldest preserved complete musical composition in the world.
• Visual images of music being played and musicians at the time were found on potteries and relief sculptures
• The word music comes from the Greek word mousiké which refers not only to music but to the fusion of song, dance, and poetry attributed to the art of the muses in greek mythology.
• The doctrine of ethos, an idea accepted by the greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, claims that music can influence the character and behavior of a person and it has been continuously echoed up to the present western culture.
• Hymn - is a religious song or poem in praise or honor of God or gods.

  Tetrachord - is a set of four notes

  Mode - is the sequence of tones like scales, each having a unique pattern.

  Scale - is a series of notes arranged from lowest to highest to denote the pitches of a mode or a key.

  Meter - is the groupings of pulses or beats.
• Aulos


  A musical wind instrument with a body consisting of a circular pipe with finger holes cut down on its length and furnished with a mouth piece
• Lyre


  A stringed musical instrument resembling a harp, used to accompany rituals, dancing, singing, and recitation of epic poetry both in public and private
• Kithara


  A larger version of the lyre, a stringed musical instrument resembling a harp, used to accompany rituals, dancing, singing, and recitation of epic poetry both in public and private
• Toubeleki


  A traditional pot-like drum instrument usually made from clay or metal and covered with animal skin at the sides, often used as an accompaniment to traditional greek folk songs
• Bouzouki


  A string instrument that has a flat front decorated with pearls, played with a plectrum (a thin flat piece of plastic or shell used to pick the strings), producing a sharp metallic sound
• The music of ancient greece was mainly monophonic, a style of musical composition consisting a single voice or melodic line without harmonic accompaniment.
• Tibia - its a roman counterpart of the Greek aulos and was used for religious ceremonies, military parades, and the staging of tragedies and comedies.

  Tuba - a long straight trumpet with detachable funnel-shaped mouthpiece, and were also used for religious ceremonies and military signals.

  Cornu - a large G-shaped circular horn, and its smaller version - buccina. both of these were used as accompaniments for public events and entertainments.