Database 'Documents of Ancient Greek Music' (dDAGM)
Description
This database, created by Dr Tosca A.C. Lynch (https://oxford.academia.edu/ToscaLynch), includes all the notes attested in the ancient Greek musical documents collected in the standard edition DAGM (Pöhlmann, E. and West, M.L., 2001, Documents of Ancient Greek Music, Oxford: OUP).
Dr Lynch will present historically informed interpretations of these data in a series of articles devoted, respectively, to:
–the Classical/Hellenistic harmonic system and the relative documents (marked as BC in this database);
–the Imperial harmonic system and the relative documents (marked as AD in this database)Dubious readings follow Pöhlmann and West; DAGM 17-18 are grouped with Imperial documents, as discussed in the articles.
This Database Documents of Ancient Greek Music is licensed by Tosca A.C. Lynch under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License for academic research purposes (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
The Greek musical notation fonts used in dDAGM have been designed by Stefan Hagel (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna).
Please contact Dr Lynch if you have further questions on this database, its use or related matters, or if you find any typos.
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Visualisations of the data concerning Classical scores are included in two articles that are about to be published in Greek and Roman Musical studies:
Lynch, T. A.C. (2022a) 'Unlocking the Riddles of Classical Greek Melodies I: Dorian Keys to the Harmonic Revolution of the New Music and the Hellenistic Musical Documents', Greek and Roman Musical Studies 10.2.
Lynch, T. A.C. (2022b). ‘Unlocking the Riddles of Classical Greek Melodies II: the Revolution of the New Music in the Ashmolean Papyri (DAGM 5–6) and Athenaeus’ Paean (DAGM 20)’, Greek and Roman Musical Studies 10.2.
Imperial evidence will be discussed in two articles currently in preparation:
Lynch, T. A.C. (forthcoming 1). ‘Unlocking the Riddles of Imperial Greek Melodies I: the “Lydian” metamorphosis of the Classical harmonic system in the Imperial musical documents’.
Lynch, T . A.C. (forthcoming). ‘Unlocking the Riddles of Imperial Greek Melodies II: Ptolemy’s harmogaí, the Louvre aulos and the Imperial Musical Documents’.
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