musicology

Armand D'Angour / The Conversation In 1932, the musicologist Wilfrid Perrett reported to an audience at the Royal Musical Association in London the words of an unnamed professor of Greek with musical leanings: “Nobody has ever made head or tail of ancient Greek music, and nobody ever will. That way madness lies.” [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"51035","attributes":{"alt":"Roman mosaic with aulos player. (Public Domain)","class":"media-image","height":"526","style":"width: 382px; height: 526px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"382"}}]] Roman mosaic with aulos player. ( Public Domain) Indeed, ancient Greek music has long posed a maddening enigma. Yet music was ubiquitous in classical Greece, with most of the poetry from around 750 BC to 350 BC – the songs of Homer, Sappho, and others – composed and performed as sung music, sometimes accompanied by dance. Literary texts