I am procrastinating with writers' block, trying to write about Books of Hours, and so to try and give myself another way to think about the texts I've been listening to a lot of medieval liturgical music, which has made me aware of how painfully little I know about the history of music. Here's more or less what I know:
Way-back-when BC: people made instruments? Do we know about them?
Greek-Roman times: they had lyres and shit
early medieval: plainsong and no polyphonic music (though I am not entirely clear what polyphony is )
[long gap]
Abba. And Madonna.
Can you help me fill in the gaps (and I know it's all Western-centric, sorry!)?
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How do I educate myself about history of music?
LRDtheFeministDragon · 05/11/2012 10:25
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