Ancient Greek music was an integral part of daily life and played a role in marriages, funerals, religious ceremonies, theatre, and reciting of epic poetry. While little of the actual music remains, there are some musical notations and many descriptions in literature that provide insights into what the music sounded like and the important role of professional musicians in society. Archaeological remains also depict music being performed on artifacts like pottery. Music was closely connected to the Muses and gods like Apollo, who was considered the god of music among his other domains. Learning and performing music was seen as beneficial and necessary for citizens, especially children, who were taught hymns and songs from a young age.
2. The music of ancient Greece was almost universally present in society, from
marriages and funerals to religious ceremonies, theatre, folk music and the
ballad-like reciting of epic poetry. It thus played an integral role in the lives
of ancient Greeks. There are significant fragments of actual Greek musical
notation as well as many literary references to ancient Greek music, so that
some things can be known—or reasonably surmised—about what the music
sounded like, the general role of music in society, the economics of music, the
importance of a professional caste of musicians, etc. Even archaeological
remains reveal an abundance of depictions on ceramics, for example, of music
being performed.
The word music comes from the Muses, the
daughters of Zeus and patron goddesses of
creative and intellectual endeavors.
3. Apollo is one of the most important and complex of
the Olympian deities in ancient Greek and Roman
religion, Greek and Roman mythology, and Greco–
Roman Neopaganism. The ideal of the kouros (a
beardless, athletic youth), Apollo has been variously
recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and
prophecy, healing, plague, music, poetry, and more.
Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin
sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. Apollo is known
in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu.
4. In ancient Greece, it was beneficial for all people to
exercise to music, for the Arcades it was also necessary.
Only in the Arcades’ first children from toddler age they
used to sing, according to musicians, hymns and paeans,
with whom everyone could sing , for local heroes and
gods; then they were dancing with big competition every
year in the theatres with the accompaniment of the Piper
of Dionysus.
5. And no thought at all ashamed to admit that he
knew something of the other courses, but could
not deny that they knew the song because it
required to all to learn this activity, nor, if they
were saying quite, could be exempted from this,
because it was considered shameful in their parts.
The old course all these introduced, rather than to
cultivate the sensuality and display wealth, but
because they observed personal toil and in short
the laborious and hard life and because send
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