A hypothesis for the birth of ancient Greek musical notation, c. 500 BCE

[@austinotinghar8344]

Thank you Barnaby! Very happy to have been part of this journey, and it is simply amazing how this has all unfolded. Julian - we look forward to sharing the piece once possible!

[@Dreileben]

Funny nerdy lovely lecture again. I Honor your wisdom and Sharing it with menkind. Its possibly been Kingdom of Macedonia. There has been no Greece yet, I think.

[@Hecatonicosachoron]

There exists no person in the world that can speak with greater clarity than Barnaby Brown! An amazing demonstration! Looking forward to listening more enharmonic pieces, I am enamoured with the microtonality of it all

[@sentenzamarini9674]

Ciao Barnabi,sempre in forma, spero tutto bene cordiali saluti a tutti voi in FAMIGLIA un abbraccio Luciano

[@xenaretos]

Also, 12-EDO has only been in active use for less than 200 years.

[@charlesgaskell5899]

Barnaby, nearly two years on, has there been any or much traction on your interesting hypothesis? Have you refined it, or thrown it out? I presume that regardless of whether it derives from Aramaic script or not, the suggestion that the rotated/mirrored symbols represent three different fingerings of the same pitch would hold true? Where can I find out more about the other hypotheses about this notation?

[@julianmisut6258]

I would quite like to hear the piece by Austin! Great Video!

[@GreenLegendRan]

Barnaby Brown videos are always fun. The enthusiasm and speculation are fun, but as someone trying to learn the alghoza double pipes (drop the G and it's almost aulos), the aulos feels a lot closer than it did a few years ago. Hopefully, someday I'll take a vacation to Sardinia and get even closer via the launeddas. The son of the greatest alghoza player that ever lived (arguably the current greatest alghoza player) is now offering lessons over Zoom call, for the first time in history, because touring with the alghoza pipes isn't paying the bills as well during a pandemic. I wonder if there is any rare knowledge that can be gleaned from those lessons and used to reignite the aulos' ancient fire from that of its cousin.

[@farcenter]

It's my understanding that the alghoza is played with quick short breaths which form a backing tempo. This as opposed to the circular breathing technique demonstrated here. I really wonder if that has been explored for the aulose. I feel like it It could sound really good and would fit with some of the historical descriptions I've heard of the sound

[@GreenLegendRan]

@@farcenter The short quick breaths are part of a circular breathing technique and not independent breaths. It's more like tremolo than a cessation or resumption of breathing. I'm writing this reply to a reply after many more months of lessons than when I wrote the above reply. I agree that it would be nice to see the aulos used with stylistic elements of other ancient multi-flutes, as those styles could have migrated along trade routes and there is no way to be sure - or perhaps them sounding good is reason enough.

[@xenaretos]

Egypt around 1200-1100 BC? That's right around the late bronze age collapse. Interesting.