The document summarizes music in ancient times from the beginning of the Ancient Age to the fall of the Roman Empire. It discusses that advanced cultures developed music in places like Mesopotamia, Egypt, Palestine, Greece and Rome. Greek music is known through writings of philosophers and scholars found fragments of notations. Music had educational and ethical purposes and was closely associated with poetry and dance. The Greeks invented musical modes and instruments included the aulos, lyre, harp and pipe organ.

1. Music in the ancient
times
By: Teresa Ares, Manuela
Benítez, Sofía de la Cruz, Pilar
Faria, María Fernández y Bea
Melitón

2. HISTORIC CONTEXT
• The Ancient Age began with the invention
of writing and goes until the fall of the
Roman Empire at the hands of the
barbarians, in the V century AD, in 476.
In this era developed advanced cultures in
Asia Minor (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Palestine)
as well as in Greece and Rome.

3. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MUSIC
• In Greece, the first symptoms appeared and
written decipherable music are now preserved
in manuscripts. It is from the Greek word from
which comes the music (mousike) which
includes both poetry and dance
and music. They felt that the music comes
from many Greek gods
and Plato regarded as the basis of education.

4. OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
In the Classical antiquity the general
concepts of beauty were the harmony,
order and proportion. Greek music is also
known through the writings
of Plato, Aristotle and Pythagoras.There
were also found brief fragments
of papyrus alphabetical notation and stone
inscriptions. In theaters, the choir and the
instrumentalists were placed in front of
the stage, in a space called the orchestra.

5. THE FUNCTIONS OF THE MUSIC
• In Greece, the music
had an educational character, as it was
thought that it helped the social order. It was
also credited an ethical value, it was
thought that hearing a certain type of
music influenced in the behavior. The
music was closely associated with poetry and
dance, especially in Greek tragedy.

6. MUSICAL MODES
The Greeks invented the musical modes:
• Doric: from d to D: Finalis: Re, Tenor:
La, tessitura: re
• Phrygian:from e to E. Finalis: I, Tenor:
C, tessitura: mi
• Lydian:from f to F: Finalis: Fa, Tenor:
C, tessitura: Fa
• Mixolydian: from g to G: Finalis:
Sol, Tenor: Re tessitura: Sol

8. The
Lute
The
Harp
The Sistrum
The Aulos
The
The Pipe Organ Zither The Lyre

9. Video explicativo
•http://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=Nzt7oATna1
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