The Common Origins of European and Middle-Eastern Music - Epic Talking

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This video will be a very high level, general overview of how music theory developed over time in the western areas of Eurasia from a common root in Mesopotamian and Ancient Greek music theories, diverging over time in two distinct branches, one dealing with vertical harmonic pursuits which gives us the Western tradition, the other with horizontal modal pursuits, which gives us the Eastern traditions.

Sources:
The Ancient Greek roots of Mediterranean Tonality and its Hemiolic Typology and their antithesis to Western tonality: https://www.academia.edu/50584752

/The_Ancient_Greek_roots_of_Mediterranean_Tonality_and_its_Hemiolic_Typology_and_their_antithesis_to_Western_tonality, Aleksey Nikolsky

The Rise of Music in the Ancient World : East and West, Curt Sachs

Ancient Greek Music, Martin L. West

Ancient Greek Music: A New Technical History, Steven Hagel

Microtonality in Ancient Greek Music, Michael Hewitt

The Sound of Medieval Song, Timothy J. Mc Gee

Music in the Texts from Ugarit, Matahisa Koitabasi:
https://www.academia.edu/38789419/Mus...

A Musical and Mathematical Context for CBS 1766, Leon Crickmore:
https://www.academia.edu/1618638/A_Mu...

Musical Ensembles, Krispjin:
https://www.academia.edu/37109059/Kri...

The Babylonian Musical Notation and the Hurrian Melodic Texts, M. L. West:
https://musicircle.net/wp-content/upl...

Is Nid Qabli Dorian ? Tuning and modality in Greek and Hurrian music, Stefan Hagel:
https://www.academia.edu/47502712/Is_...

The Musical Instruments from Ur and Ancient Mesopotamian Music: Anne Draffkorn Kilmer: https://www.penn.museum/people/person...

New Light on the Babylonian Tonal System, Leon Crickmore: https://www.academia.edu/278555/NEW_L...

Was Mesopotamian Tuning Diatonic? A Parsimonious Answer, Jay Rahn: https://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.22....

Mesopotamian Music Theory Since 1977, Anne Draffkorn Kilmer:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/do...

Mesopotamian Music (pre-Islamic), Bo Lawergren:
https://www.academia.edu/11728399/Mes...

A Hurrian Musical Score from Ugarit, The Discovery of Mesopotamian Music, Marcelle Duchesne-Guillemin:
https://urkesh.org/attach/duchesne-gu...

Interview with Anne Kilmer:
https://archive.ph/ewHL7

The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East, Richard Dumbrill

The earliest evidence of heptatonism in a late Old Babylonian text: CBS 1766
https://www.academia.edu/243915/Earli...

Organum Duplum aux 12ème et 13ème siècles, Alban Thomas, https://academia.edu/resource/work/84...

Organum, Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/art/organum

Performing Medieval Music, Part 2/3: Turning Monophony Into Polyphony: https://earlymusicmuse.com/performing...

The Ancient Art of Organum:    • The Ancient Art of Organum  

• "The Sound of Medieval Song, Ornamentation and Vocal Style According to the Treatises"
Timothy J. McGee, Latin translations by Randall A. Rosenfeld

Intro 00:00
Mesopotamia 02:00
Ancient Greece 08:55
Middle-Ages: the East 12:50
Middle-Ages: Western Europe 19:30
Associations: “this sounds Eastern” 24:10