Ancient Greek Music

[Ed Guerra]

It is all greek to me.At 08:25 AM 2/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
>O.K. O.K.  so we don't know what it sounded like,   we don't have all our
>background,   I'm swamped enough I don't feel like digging through all my
>issues of the American Musical Instrument Society Journals or the Galpin
>Society Journals to back myself up,  but I think we can assume correctly
>that there was music in Greek society, yes?    Also,   we do know that the
>Phyrgian mode was considered rather scandalous and licentious in comparison
>to the Dorian mode,  which inspired reflection.  Now, doesn't Plato have
>something to say on this subject?   I'm way too busy this week to look into
>it.  Surely one of you knows this quickly......Stephen?
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