ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC

The music you hear is produced by the spanish group “Atrium Musicae de Madrid“ and you can find it in a cd under the title Musique de la Grèce Antique. Three or four of the pieces in the cd are original and drawn from ancient scripts without many additions. The one heard here comes from the first “stasimon“ (when the chorus has finished entering the stage) of Euripides’ Orestes (written in 408 BC). The chorus of women from Argos are mourning for the ill fate of Orestis. The music was written by Euripi