His interests focus on ancient Greek music and metre, including reconstruction of instruments and performance techniques. holds a research post at the Commission for Ancient Literature of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The book will be indispensable to all those interested in Greek music, technology and performance culture and the general history of musicology. Dr Hagel discusses the textual and pictorial evidence, introducing mathematical approaches wherever feasible, but also contributes to the interpretation of instruments in the archaeological record and occasionally is able to outline the general features of instruments not directly attested. These threads are followed down to late antiquity, when details recorded by Ptolemy permit an exceptionally clear perspective on the harmonic relations underlying the extant melody fragments. It thus emerges how closely ancient harmonic theory depended on the culturally dominant instruments, the lyre and the aulos. It traces the development of ancient melodic notation from reconstructed origins, through various adaptations necessitated by changing musical styles and newly invented instruments, to its final canonical form. This book endeavours to pinpoint the relations between musical, and especially instrumental, practice and the evolving conceptions of pitch systems. ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC A NEW TECHNICAL HISTORY
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