All lectures are free to attend.
We are excited to announce the inaugural seminar series of Ancient Music at Oxford, Approaches to Ancient Greek Music. This seminar explores the reconstruction and reimagination of ancient Greek music and brings together different approaches to this topic that have been traditionally separated by disciplinary boundaries. This seminar aims to increase the accessibility of a highly specialised subject, and draws on a multidisciplinary and international range of expertise. Please direct any questions to thyra-lilja.altunin@bnc.ox.ac.uk or cara.nicol@jesus.ox.ac.uk
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Week 1 21 January |
An Introduction to Ancient Greek Music Armand D’Angour (Jesus College) Should we try to hear Ancient Greek music? |
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Week 2 28 January |
Approaches to Melodic Patterns Preserved in Pitch Accents Thyra-Lilja Altunin (Brasenose College) “Sing, Oh Muse”: On the Path of Reconstructing the Melodic Patterns of Ancient Greek Poetic Songs
Anna Conser (University of Cincinnati) A Deadly Marriage Hymn: The Musical Design of Medea Stasimon 4 |
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Week 3 4 February |
Music on the Ancient Stage Maggie Tighe (Christ Church College) The New Music of Euripides’ Hypsipyle
Topher Colby (Jesus College) Rhythm and Metre in Homer |
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Week 4 11 February |
Ancient Musical Philosophy: Plato to Boethius Belle Rockett (New College) Music as Medicine: The Pharmacological Effects of Audible Music in the Ancient World Andrew Hicks (Cornell University) TBD |
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Week 5 18 February |
The Oxyrhynchus Musical Papyri and their Context Amin Benaissa (Christ Church College) Musical and Performance Culture in Oxyrhynchus
Cara Nicol (Jesus College) Melodic Pitch Accentual Conformity in the Oxyrhynchus Musical Papyri |
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Week 6 25 February |
Workshop John Franklin (University of Vermont) How to Read Ancient Greek Music Notation |
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Week 7 4 March |
Composition and the Reception of Ancient Musical Traditions Alex Silverman (Jesus College) Mime, metre, music: interpreting and performing the dochmiacs of the Fragmentum Grenfellianum
Felipe Aguirre Quintero (Conservatorio Superior de Música de las Islas Baleares) A Reconstruction of the Concept of ἑρμηνεία in Ancient Greek Music |
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Week 8 11 March |
Archaeomusicology and Performance on Ancient Instruments Callum Armstrong TBD
Barnaby Brown (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) Rhythms of Tongue and Toe: Engaging with the conceptions of ancient grammarians and how this impacts aulos-led song-dance
Stefan Hagel (Austrian Academy of Sciences) TBD |
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11-12 March
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Workshop in Collaboration with Lotos Lab Barnaby Brown Make Your Own Classical Aulos |
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12 March |
Recital The seminar will conclude with a performance in which we showcase the musical results of our approaches to resuscitating elements of ancient music. In this recital we will exhibit a variety of types of music and a range of sounds which will include performances of surviving fragments, attempts at authentic reconstruction of the music, poetic musical text, and diverse new compositions and recompositions that take inspiration from the ancient musical traditions. |
NB Location: Jesus College Ship Street Centre Lecture Theatre. This is not at the main Jesus College site, but can be found here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/E7HLongcKmeFuD9t9.
The Week 8 lectures will be held in the Buchanan Tower Room and the recital in the Jesus College Chapel.
Both of these can be found by asking at the Jesus College Porters Lodge.
Also livestreamed on Zoom at:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87651717393?pwd=Sa5QvFEYbhRd57bhIyAfWvpzqP4bwo.1
Meeting ID: 876 5171 7393
Passcode: 038170
