“Suppose that 2,500 years from now all that survived of the Beatles songs were a few of the lyrics, and all that remained of Mozart and Verdi’s operas were the words and not the music,” the BBC News reported recently. Have you ever thought about how the music of an ancient culture sounds? Would you be able to recognize it as music or would it sound like noise? I mean consider how un-musical one generation’s music sounds to an older generation. Does that difference get multiplied by a factor with each additional generation’s separation? A musician and tutor at Oxford University, Armand D’Angour, believes he has been able to recreate the music of Ancient Greece, which is something that hasn’t been heard for thousands of years. Besides reconstructing the music from historical clues, you would have to be able to Read more…