The Music of Ancient Greece!

This video, is a short rendition of one of the precious few fragments of surviving ancient Greek music! This haunting, almost dream-like fragment of melody was preverved in ancient Byzantine manuscripts(Conspectus codicum: V. Venetus Marcianus appl. cl. VI, saec. XIII-XIV N. Neapolitanus graecus III. C4, saec. XV F. Florentius Ricc. 41, saec. XVI), in the unambiguous alphabetical musical notation used in ancient Greece, the melodic fragment is catalogued as “Anonymous, Bellermann 97-104“.
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