[OR_Archaeology] AIA lecture on "Eastern Approaches to Ancient Greek Music" tonight at Willamette University, Salem

[Susan White]

"Eastern Approaches to Ancient Greek Music"

John Franklin, Musicologist & Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Vermont
Thursday, March 12th 2009
7:30 pm
John C. Paulus Great Hall, Collins Legal Center
This is a free lecture open to the public
No-host dinner in the Jason Lee Room, Goudy Commons, at 6 pm

This lecture will explore the musical dimension of Mycenaean involvement in the Bronze Age cultural "koine" which linked the palaces of the Aegean and the wider Near East into a single complex economy. Special attention is given, in largely non-technical terms, to the adaptation of the canonical Mesopotamian musical system. This Iron Age survival of this tradition will be considered in terms of post-palatial regionalism.  Continuity of cult provides the most likely context, as the distribution 
patterns of this music must be distinguished from those of epic song.  Migration traditions and iconography harmonize to suggest a Mycenaean musical diaspora within the post-palatial migrations to Cyprus, Cilicia, Philistia and Western Anatolia, especially Lesbos.


For more information on Professor Franklin and a video please visit:
http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?Page=News&storyID=13669

This lecture is sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and Classics Program and the Center for Asian Studies and Archaeology at Willamette Univeristy.

 
Andrea Foust	
Coordinator 
Centers for Academic Excellence
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem, Oregon 97301 USA
Phone:  (503) 370-6654