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Music with HistoryNew Testament, Greece, and Rome

E a s y C l a s s i c a l P r e s s

E a s y C l a s s i c a l M u s i c

Music with HistoryNew Testament, Greece, and Rome

By Deborah Cummings, BMus

Easy Classical MusicA Division of Easy Classical Education

Winterville, NC

This book is dedicated to

Steven and Melissa

and

Chris and Beth,

my dear children and

children-in-law;

and to

Gabriel, Landon, Asher,

Lydia Grace, and

Evangeline,

my precious grand-children.

Music with History: NewTestament, Greece, and Rome

by Deborah Cummings

Published by Easy Classical Press

P. O. Box 1965

Greenville, NC 27835

www.easyclassical.com

 

First Edition ©2013 by Deborah Cummings

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Cover design by Sandra Williams

Cover photo: This is a detail from a Roman mosaic of a trio of musicians from the Villa del Cicerone in Pompeii. The mosaic is signed by Dioskurides of Samos. Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples). |Date=2nd c. BC |Author=unknown. Photo by S.I.Sosnovsky. |Permission={{PD-art-old}}. {{PD-US-old}} Taken on 6 November 2010 by user Olorulus. Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MosaicoVerdiales.jpg. June 28, 2013.

Inside photo: Music lesson: teacher (right) and his student (left). Between them, a boy narrates a text. Attic red-figure hydria, ca. 510 BC. From Vulci. Permission={{PD-permission by copyright holder}} Photo taken on 10 September 2007 by user Bibi Saint-Pol. Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Music_lesson_Staatliche_Antikensammlungen_2421.jpg. July 11, 2013.

Table of Contents

Getting Set Up ................................................................................................................1

Lesson 1: Music of the Mycenaeans/Notation..................................................................2

Lesson 2: Homer/Music in Greek Culture .......................................................................6

Lesson 3: At the Olympics/Pitch ...................................................................................10

Lesson 4: In Sparta and Athens/Pythagoras ...................................................................14

Lesson 5: Tetrachords/Our Musical Heritage .................................................................18

Lesson 6: Plato/Instruments of Ancient Greece .............................................................22

Lesson 7: New Musical Notation ...................................................................................26

Lesson 8: The Music and Instruments of Rome ............................................................30

Lesson 9: The Isthmian Games/Review .........................................................................34

Lesson 10: The Music of India/Meter ............................................................................38

Lesson 11: Julius Caesar/Opera .....................................................................................42

Lesson 12: Mary’s Magnificat/Dotted Half Note ............................................................46

Lesson 13: Early Church Music .....................................................................................50

Lesson 14: Oratorio/Handel’s Messiah ...........................................................................54

Lesson 15: Elements of Music .......................................................................................58

Lesson 16: Upbeats .......................................................................................................62

Lesson 17: Composing a Melody ...................................................................................66

Lesson 18: Final Review ................................................................................................70

Final Review Answer Key ..............................................................................................74

Sound-Offs ...................................................................................................................78

Picture Credits ..............................................................................................................80