Approaches to Ancient Greek Music
To access recordings of the lecture series and recital, please visit the Approaches to Ancient Music Seminar 2025 playlist on YouTube.
Full Lecture List
An Introduction to Ancient Greek Music
Armand D'Angour (Jesus College)
Should we try to hear Ancient Greek Music?
Approaches to Melodic Patterns Preserved in Pitch Accents
Thyra-Lilja Altunin (Brasenose College)
"Sing, Oh Muse": On the Path of Reconstructing the Melodic Pattern of Ancient Greek Poetic Songs
Anna Conser (University of Cincinnati)
A Deadly Marriage Hymn: The Musical Design of Medea Stasimon 4
Music on the Ancient Stage
Maggie Tighe (Christ Church College
The New Music of Euripides' Hypsipyle
Christopher Colby (Jesus College)
Rhythm and Metre in Homer
Ancient Musical Philosophy: Plato to Boethius
Belle Rockett (New College)
Some Melody Previously Heard: The Song of Philosophy in Boethius's Consolatio
Andrew Hicks (Cornell University)
Sound Signifying in Boethius' De institutione musica
The Oxyrhynchus Musical Papyri and their Context
Amin Benaissa (Christ Church College)
Musical and performance Culture in Oxyrhynchus
Cara Nicol (Jesus College)
Melodic Pitch Accentual Conformity in the Oxyrhynchus Musical Papyri
Workshop
John Franklin (University of Vermont)
How to Read Ancient Greek Musical Notation
Composition and the Reception of Ancient Musical Traditions
Alex Silverman (Jesus College)
Mime, Metre, Music: Interpreting and Performing the Dochmiacs of the Fragmentum Grenfellianum
Felipe Aguirre Quintero (Conservatorio Superior de Música de las Islas Baleares)
A Reconstruction of the Concept of ἑρμηνεία in Ancient Greek Music
Archaeomusicology and Performance on Ancient Instruments
Callum Armonstrong (The Aulos Collective)
Looking at the Aulos from an Early Music Perspective
Stefan Hagel (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Candace's Aulos Puzzle: Doublepipes from Ancient Africa
Barnaby Brown (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
Rhythms of Tongue and Toe: Engaging with the Conceptions of Ancient Grammarians and how this Impacts Aulos-Led Song-Dance
Workshop in Collaboration with Lotos Lab
Barnaby Brown
Make Your Own Classical Aulos
Recital
The seminar concludes with a performance in which we showcase the musical results of our approaches to resuscitating elements of ancient music. In this recital we exhibit a variety of types of music and a range out sounds which include performances of surviving fragments, attempts at authentic reconstruction of the music, poetic musical text, and diverse new compositions and recompositions that take inspiration from the ancient musical tradition.