Ancient and Early Music

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A community for Medieval and Renaissance-era music (as well as music before those periods).

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Excepting maybe the guy with the Salpinx, the music here is just kinda vaguely old. Y'all got anything on EARLY music? Ancient Egyptian instruments recovered from tombs? etc? (self.earlymusic)

submitted 10 months ago by Baahb to c/earlymusic

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[–] Zombiepirate 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I try to post what I have some knowledge in (late middle ages/early Renaissance music), and the truth is it's much harder to know what music was played on those ancient instruments. That's why I tend to post "demonstrations" of those, with academics explaining what they know.

That said, I'd love for more people to post in here! If you see something interesting, please do share. I'll look for more ancient instruments in future posts, too; I only do 1 per day to avoid flooding /all.

[–] Baahb 3 points 10 months ago

Thanks for responding. Im not really a music person in any sort of technical sense. I wouldn't expect there to be notation for example, or for us to know what ancient music actually would have sounded like, but seeing some one dicking around on ancient instrumentation might be kinda cool. Seeing an early music community, I was surprised to not find that. After I read your response, I figured, "hell why not contribute" and googled for early music. Wikipedia then slapped me in the face with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_music which is apparently a somewhat technical term, and I've misunderstood the topic.