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Eurysilas
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I was wondering if you guys knew of any sites with Greek or Roman music. I was hoping to find some, but all I found was an independent band that charged for its music and a chanted fragment of Homer's Odyssey (kudos to Aoidoi.com for leading me to that).

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This is the one I’m most familiar with. There are more for sure.

Ancient Geek music (http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/agm/), and its subsidiaries:

Homeric Singing (http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/sh/)

and

Music of the Ancient Near East (http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/mane/index.htm).

As the blurb says:

“This site contains the musical fragments found on cuneiform tablets in Ugarit, stemming from about the mid-second millennium BC. They contained text (in Hurrian language) and musical scores of several "songs to the gods", all composed in the same tuning or mode (called nîd qabli). Only one piece, labeled h. 6, is almost complete.?
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I'll try youtube for this. Surprizing how many videos related to ancient Greek music you'll find there, some are real great performances.

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Since Mesomedes is the lucky poet to have several of his tunes survive with his words, any search on him will generally include musical info.

Martin West's book Ancient Greek Music is the current standard reference.
William S. Annis — http://www.aoidoi.org/http://www.scholiastae.org/
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annis wrote:Since Mesomedes is the lucky poet to have several of his tunes survive with his words, any search on him will generally include musical info.
Thank you. Hopefully, that with some Googling will produce results.

Scribo and Faylasoof, sorry, but that wasn't quite what I was looking for. Thank you for trying on my behalf, though. :)

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You can also find 1 CD of ancient greek musique if you go to the iTunes music store and search for "Musique de la Grèce Antique" .
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