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Greek Musical Instruments
Posted by Admin | Posted in Business | Posted on 23-02-2010
1000 BC until the 4th century BC Greece was composed of a small country like Macedonia or Sparta. Until the reign of Alexander the Great, the Greek Empire is the largest Empire besides China. But after Alexander’s death, the Greek empire conquered by the Roman Empire.
According to ancient Greek myth, the music is a creation of gods or demi-gods such as Apollo, Amphion, and Orpheus. At that time the music can not be validated from religious rituals. Several instruments are used as Lyra, Kithara, and Aulos. Musical Instruments Lyra (a small harp) is a musical instrument related to the flow of Apollo. Lyra and musical instruments played Kithara learned and consists of five to seven strings. This instrument is used to accompany epic poetry and can also be used as a solo instrument. While Aulos is a musical instrument played by blowing, which is made of wood and consists of two pipes? Aulos used to accompany the dish Dithyramb, i.e. a specific kind of poetry which is played in the worship of Dionysus. It is the best Greek music.
Music in the days of Ancient Greek found when Pythagoras (580-500 BC) was a famous philosopher and mathematician in ancient Greece with his disciples to find that harmony in music corresponds to the ratio of two integers. Now Greek music and video is interest by the community.

