Music history paper?

Question

I'm writing an essay on the journey of music from the beginning to ars nova. I have some basics, but If anyone knows anything on ancient music in caves, gregorian chants, some premedieval music, how Plato relates to music and works with intervals, music in mass, strophic, cadence, melisma and the beginnings of operas and musicals, please elaborate, lots of detail!

Answer 1

You have quite a lot to get through. It might be worth reposting your question under Entertainment-Music-Classical. I don't think anyone knows anything about music in caves. The Classical ancients (Greeks and Romans for example) are known to have had instruments like trumpets, drums and plucked instruments akin to a lute, but we have no real idea what it sounded like - although some have tried to reconstruct it. Gregorian chant was introduced by Pope Gregory (natch!). You ask for the history of music up to ars nova - which was in the late middle ages up to about the time of Guillame de Machaut who wrote the first composed Mass we know of ' the Mess de Nostre Dame'. The history of opera and musicals falls well outside your period. I suggest that as you want such a vast subject covered you would be better doing some more research yourself - trying googling 'history of music' and the various heading you list

Answer 2

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