Essay about The Oxford History of Western Music Chapter 1 – Flashcards
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When did music stop being an almost exclusively oral tradition, and become a partly literate one?
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Over 1,000 years ago.
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The history of written music in the west began with the music for the services of the?
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Roman Catholic Church.
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In 2009, what did archaeologists find in Germany from 35,000 years ago?
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A five-finger flute made of bone from the Stone Age, at least 35,000 years ago.
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Pre-historic cave paintings, Egyptian murals, Greek pottery had surviving illustrations of?
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Ancient music.
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Psalm 150, the climax of the Psalmer (Book of Psalms) is an account of?
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Singing God's praises in the ancient temple.
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What is a Psalm?
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A sacred song or hymn, with texts taken from the biblical Book of Psalms and used in Christian and Jewish worship; often collected in a book called a psalter.
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No Jewish music was written down until when?
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Modern times.
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In the 1970s, scholars managed to transcribe the notation on a cuneiform tablet dating from around 1200 BC on the site of the ancient city Babylonian city of Ugarit. What did this tablet contain?
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A hymn to the goddess Nillak, the wife of the moon god Kushuh
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What is a hymn?
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A metrical song of praise derived from Greek pagan practice; the term is now usually applied to vernacular Christian songs of worship.
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Name the Epitaph which probably dated from the first century of the Common Era
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The Epitath of Seikilos
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What is an Epitaph?
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Greek for "Over a tomb," that is, a short memorial poem
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What country developed a pitch-specific music notation?
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The ancient Greeks.
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What are the two earliest Greek melodies?
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Two Delphic hymns, praising the god Apollo, from around 130 B.C.
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Greek music was important in...?
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Remembering the dead.
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The Greeks used what to indicate pitch and rhythm?
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Letters and symbols.
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The sung texts from the ancient Greeks were often accompanied by various kinds of instruments, including...
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The Cithara or lyre, plucked string instruments, and the aulos, a wind instrument.
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Who advocated banning most musical scales because, "More than anything else, rhythm and harmony find their way to the inner most soul and take strongest hold upon it." ?
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Socrates, a quote from Plato's Republic (360 BC).
