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Page vi help with various questions; to Professor A.D. Trendall for permission to reproduce a plate from his book Early South Italian Vase Painting, published by Philipp yon Zabern of Mainz, 1974; and to authorities of the following institutions for photographs and permissions: the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam; the National Museum of Greece; the British School at Athens; Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basle; the Antikenmuseum and Staatliche Museen, Berlin; the Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels; the National Museum of Denmark; the Ruhrland Museum, Essen; the Museo Archeologico Etrusco, Florence; the Archaeological Museum, Heraklion; the British Museum; the Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich; the Museo Nazionale and Biblioteca Nazionale, Naples; the Metropolitan Museum, New York; the Musée du Louvre, Paris; the Museo della Villa Giulia, Rome. My thanks to them all; and, very far from least, to the production staff of the Oxford University Press for the effort they have devoted to a rather demanding book. M.L.W. ALL SOULS COLLEGE, OXFORD JANUARY 1992 Contents List of Plates viii List of Figures x Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 1. Music in Greek Life 13 2. The Voice 39 3. Stringed Instruments 48 4. Wind and Percussion 81 5. Rhythm and Tempo 129 6. Scales and Modes 160 7. Melody and Form 190 8. Theory 218 9. Notation and Pitch 254 10. The Musical Documents 277 11. Historical Synthesis: 1. Sunrise and Forenoon 327 12. Historical Synthesis: 2. High Noon and Afternoon 356 Epilogue: Greece between Europe and Asia 386 Select Bibliography 391 Index 401
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