Proposal - member feedback requested

[leftybassman392]

A few years ago I did a series of articles on music in ancient Greece, and was very surprised and somewhat humbled at the overwhelmingly positive responses I received about it. I've recently been thinking about doing a kind of follow-up.

At the time of doing the Greek articles I was interested to find out more about the development of musical scales from the ancient Greek period to the present day but for various reasons never had the opportunity to develop it into anything of substance. Now though I have time on my hands: hence this thread...

I've had a few thoughts as to approach and content but most of the details still need to be worked out, and as before it would need to be presented in a series of relatively digestible chunks.

One other thing: by it's very nature a topic like this is bound to have significant mathematical content, but as before it should be possible to present it in such a way that the more arithmetically challenged will be able to skip those sections and still get the gist of the topic. That said, anybody with a half-decent grasp of fractions & ratios should have little trouble.

It's a subject that has always fascinated me (and I'd be doing it primarily for that reason), but I am aware that the natural audience for this kind of thing is likely to be small.

So, what do folks think? Please feel free to offer thoughts and suggestions - any and all sincere opinions will be welcome.

[Grangur]

"Like". I think I must have missed the previous post. I'll have a search.

This sounds interesting.

Just done a bit of a search and a few of your posts come up

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/59011-ancient-greek-music/

Other reading:

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/271426-plato/ - Lefty added some good points here.
http://basschat.co.uk/topic/252340-modes/
http://basschat.co.uk/topic/66871-ive-confused-myself-with-modes/

[ChrisDev]

Always interested in anything that has to do with music. Mathematical content only makes it more interesting.