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40 pieces / 4,000 year ancient world

    1. ancient world: 3,500 B.C.E. - 500 C.E. (fall of the Roman civilization)

    2. only 40 fragments: music ---> oral; papyrus / paper X preserve

Technology is in linear development, but art just changes; art is timeless.

Greek music

    1. humanistic

    2. believe: music heals the sick, changes human's hearts

    3. music is basic to the pursuit of true beauty

        music is ruled by the same mathematical ratios that rules the cosmos

        music ≭ math

    4. music heightens the expression of words--->Greek dramas were sung

        The invention of opera around 1,600 C.E. was to recreate the theatrical practice of ancient Greek.

Roman adopted Greek

    1. roman drinking song: Seikilos (an epitaph!!!) (1st century C.E.) vs La Traviata

5th - 6th century -- decline of Roman municipal authority -- the Roman Catholic Church filled the void

    1. 600 - 1400 middle ages; 600 - 1000 dark ages

    2. Early church: music is only for christian worship ---> 3 guidelines

        "bottom half of our bodies moves in instrumental music ---- no instrumental / dancing music; only vocal music."