But those unheard are sweeter. No, I'm very glad to have seen the videos in your link and heard the melodies therein. Absolutely fascinating! I always find it jarring to remember that, say, Medea was "a musical"... (as if she'd do "jazz hands" after killing her children...)--but it seems worthwhile to me to grant the Greeks their "otherness," even as we read them as our intellectual and cultural forebears. I'm getting pretentious, so I'll close by saying I never would have guessed the aulos would've sounded so much like a giant-ass kazoo!
Thanks for this!
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