[SCA-BMDL] Music from Stone, Clay, and Papyrus: Ancient Music from Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Greece

[McAndrew-Schwoegl]

I know that this is before our timeframe, but it looks like a very
interesting lecture and concert.

Remus Fletcher

http://www.pts.edu/Archaeology-Lectures

Music from Stone, Clay, and Papyrus: Ancient Music from Mesopotamia, Egypt,
and Greece

May 1, 2014, 7:30 p.m.

Philip and Gayle Neuman of Ensemble de Organographia will present an evening
of ancient Sumerian, Canaanite, Egyptian, and Greek music.

Archaeological excavations have unearthed notated music, musical
instruments, and images of musicians in performance from as early as 1950
BCE. Philip and Gayle Neuman draw on these rich sources to perform music of
ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Greece with voice and a wide variety of
replicas including double reed pipes, lyre, sistrum, Greek and Egyptian
trumpets, and others.

The program will include the world's oldest notated music preserved on clay
tablets at Nippur and Ugarit, Egyptian banquet music from a tomb at Thebes,
a choral ode by Euripides, hymns by Mesomedes of Crete, the musical epitaph
of Seikilos, and a paean carved into a wall of the treasury at Delphi.

Gayle and Philip Neuman have performed at venues around the U.S. and abroad.
Their CDs include Music of the Ancient Greeks and Music of the Ancient
Sumerians, Egyptians, and Greeks.

The Kelso Museum of Near Eastern Archaeology will be open from 6:30-7:15
p.m. and after the lecture. The concert and reception to follow are free and
open to the public.