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 Early Medieval Music | | Much of what defines western European culture in terms of philosophy, science, and the
arts has origins in the culture of ancient Greece.The Seikilos epitaph is the oldest
surviving complete musical composition from the Greek tradition or from any tradition
Three complete hymns by Mesomedes of Crete (2nd century CE) exist in manuscript | | Renaissance music | | The sounds of street hawkers, the songs sung in the fields to lighten the tedium of labor,
much of the music intended for the stage, and even the musical component of many
troubadour songs have proven ephemeral. The kind of instrument or voice to be used, the
pitches in the melody, the kind of accompaniment might vary from one time to
the next, as might the tempo, the volume, or even the rhythm. | |
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