A Michigan Papyrus with Musical Notation

Pearl, Orsamus Merrill; Winnington‐Ingram, R. P.

doi:10.1177/030751336505100118

The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

1965

DOI: 10.1177/030751336505100118

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A Michigan Papyrus with Musical Notation

Orsamus Merrill Pearl¹,

R. P. Winnington‐Ingram²

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“…PBerol 6870, Ajax fragment (seeWinnington-Ingram (1955) 80); PMich inv. 2958 (seePearl and Winnington- Ingram (1965) 186 and 191-2), POxy 3704, 3161; and there are often many exceptions in the papyri where stigmai seem more rational, as e.g. in POxy 2436.…”

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Musical evenings in the early Empire: new evidence from a Greek papyrus with musical notation

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With disarmingly open conceit, the Younger Pliny tells Pontius Allifanus that ‘my hendecasyllables are read, are copied, are even sung, and Greeks (who have learned Latin out of love for my poetry book) make my verses resound to cithara and lyre’ (Epist. 7.4.9). By Pliny's time, Greek musicians (and actors) were widely distributed and organized in a worldwide guild centred at Rome, so it will not surprise us that Greeks are the ones setting the verses to music. But what sort of music? When Pliny went out to hear his beloved poems sung to cithara and lyre, what did it sound like? Or, more generally, what did Pliny, or Martial, or, in an earlier generation, Horace see and hear when out for an evening's musical entertainment at the hands of a Greek troupe? Until fairly recently, we have known precious little. Literary sources give the odd anecdote, such as the reports of Nero's performances, but in general tell us little specific about the content or style of musical entertainment in the Roman era. And sources speaking more technically about music itself lend the impression that nothing significant happened after the ‘New Music’ was introduced in the fourth century BC.

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“…Winnington-Ingram (1955) 69-73;Pearl and Winnington-Ingram (1965) 187-8. 58 1 here record my deep gratitude for helpful comments and advice from R.G.…”

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The new musical fragment from Epidaurus

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1985

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A Michigan Papyrus with Musical Notation

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Musical evenings in the early Empire: new evidence from a Greek papyrus with musical notation

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