Arte - Music of Ancient Greece (2021)
Arte - Music of Ancient Greece (2021)
WEB-DL 720p | 53mn | 1280x720 | MP4 AVC@2128Kbps | AAC@125Kbps 2CH | 856 MB
Language: Français | Genre: Documentary | Subs: English (HC)
WEB-DL 720p | 53mn | 1280x720 | MP4 AVC@2128Kbps | AAC@125Kbps 2CH | 856 MB
Language: Français | Genre: Documentary | Subs: English (HC)
A fascinating research trip on the traces of ancient sound worlds around the Mediterranean. Recently, a papyrus was discovered in the Louvre Museum basement. It is a barely readable text, topped with tiny strange characters. The research lead by the archeomusicologist Annie Belis revealed that it is a very ancient score of Greek music, and more specifically of a tragedy, the Medea. A grammatical specificity of the text enabled to identify the composer, Carcinus, an author mentioned by Aristotle in his Poetics, in which the philosophe and preceptor of Alexander the Great quotes a few verses of this tragedy.
Discovering little by little Carcinus' life, whose name is carved on a wall of the Parthenon, it is a whole world opening to us: the one of Greek musicians honoured as Gods and who were travelling along the Mediterranean Sea to take part in competitions modelled on the Olympic Games. But how to decrypt the music of the Medea? A medieval manuscript describing the ancient Greek musical notation system, the Tables of Alypius, will turn out to be a true "Rosetta Stone".
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Arte - Music of Ancient Greece (2021)
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