: John C. Franklin
: Remembering Music in Early Greece
: Gorgias Press
: 9781463234379
: Analecta Gorgiana
: 1
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: Altertum
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This paper contemplates the various means by which the Ancient Greeks preserved information about their musical history, highlighting oral/aural tradition and the transition to literacy when inscriptions could capture information in roughly datable contexts. Music history sources and motives are also examined.