What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”

Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks com­posed songs meant to be accom­pa­nied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and var­i­ous per­cus­sion instru­ments. More than 2,000 years lat­er, mod­ern schol­ars have final­ly fig­ured out how to recon­struct and per­form these songs with (it’s claimed) 100% accu­ra­cy. Writ­ing on the BBC web­site, Armand D’An­gour, a musi­cian and … Con­tin­ue read­ing What Ancient Greek Music Sound­ed Like: Lis­ten to a Recon­struc­tion That’s “100% Accu­rate”