Rome
From Ancient Harmoniai to Reliqiuae Romanae: How the Greek tradition inspired the music of Baroque Rome
Erin Headley (University of Southampton, UK)
In the 17th century Italian scholars and musicians continued the study of Greek thought and culture that had earlier been pursued by their Renaissance predecessors and those in previous centuries.
In Renaissance and early Baroque Florence, attempts to translate and retranslate Greek music theory (modes, ancient harmonies, tunings),
and to reinvent Greek musical recitation and the chorus, were all
devised to inform and improve the Italians' own 'modern music'. Their
poets drew on myths (Orpheus, Ulysses, Euridice) for their texts, and
Persons and their bodies: disarticulation and redeposition of skeletal remains at Cisterna Grande (Crustumerium, Rome, Italy)
Ulla Rajala (University of Cambridge, UK) and Heli Arima (University of Helsinki, Finland)
In this paper we discuss some of the old and new phenomena encountered during the funerary excavations of the Remembering the Dead project in the mainly Archaic cemetery area of Cisterna Grande at the Latin ancient town of Crustumerium near Rome. The excavation project run between 2004 and 2008 and concentrated on the study of chamber tombs.
