The Music of Ancient Greece is almost completely lost. We have a rough idea of the instruments used, and the contexts where music was performed, but the actual music can only be guessed at from small scraps of information. A clearer image of the Music of Greece becomes available only from the Roman period. Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity which involves organized and audible sound, though definitions vary. ... Ancient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. ... The musical legacy of Greece is as diverse as its history. ... For other uses, see Roman Empire (disambiguation). ...

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Classical Greece

Mixed-gender choruses performed for entertainment, celebration and spiritual reasons. Instruments included the double-reed aulos and the plucked string instrument, the lyre, especially the special kind called a kithara. Satyr playing an aulos The ancient Greek aulos, often mistranslated as flute, was a double-piped reed instrument. ... A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ... A lyre is a stringed musical instrument well known for its use in Classical Antiquity. ... The kithara was an ancient Greek musical instrument. ...

Music was an important part of education in ancient Greece, and boys were taught music starting at age six. Greek musical literacy created a flowering of development; Greek music theory included the Greek musical modes, eventually became the basis for Western religious music and classical music. Music theory is a field of study that describes the elements of music and includes the development and application of methods for analyzing and composing music, and the interrelationship between the notation of music and performance practice. ... In music, a mode is an ordered series of musical intervals, which, along with the key or tonic, define the pitches. ... Religious music (also sacred music) is music performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence. ... Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ...

• Eleusis inv. 907 (trumpet signal) [1]
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Comp. 63 f.
• Euripides, Orestes, Papyrus Vienna G 2315 [2]
• Papyrus Leiden inv. P. 510 (Euripides, Iphigeneia in Aulis) [3]

Dionysius Halicarnassensis (of Halicarnassus), Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, flourished during the reign of Augustus. ... A statue of Euripides Euripides (c. ... Orestes Ορεστης is a Greek name, literally he who stands on the mountain, or mountain-dweller. Orestes can refer to: In Greek mythology, the son of Agamemnon. ...

Hellenistic Greece

• Delphic Hymns
• Papyrus Ashm. inv. 89B/31, 33 [4]
• Papyrus Ashm. inv. 89B/29-32 (citharodic nomes)
• Papyrus Hibeh 231
• Papyrus Zeno 59533
• Papyrus Vienna G 29825 a/b recto
• Papyrus Vienna G 29825 a/b verso
• Papyrus Vienna G 29825 c
• Papyrus Vienna G 29825 d-f
• Papyrus Vienna G 13763/1494
• Papyrus Berlin 6870
• Epidaurus, SEG 30. 390 (Hymn to Asclepius)

The Delphic Hymns are two musical compositions from Ancient Greece, which survive in substantial fragments. ...

References

• Pohlmann, Egert and West, Martin L., Documents of Ancient Greek Music : The Extant Melodies and Fragments Edited and Transcribed with Commentary, OUP (2001), ISBN0 19815223X