Link to the older videos:
https://youtu.be/Oj_e9wTXMUI
https://youtu.be/9VMZttMcZr8
This video will be a very high level, general overview of how music theory developed over time in the western areas of Eurasia from a common root in Mesopotamian and Ancient Greek music theories, diverging over time in two distinct branches, one dealing with vertical harmonic pursuits which gives us the Western tradition, the other with horizontal modal pursuits, which gives us the Eastern traditions.
Sources:
The Ancient Greek roots of Mediterranean Tonality and its Hemiolic Typology and their antithesis to Western tonality: https://www.academia.edu/50584752
/The_Ancient_Greek_roots_of_Mediterranean_Tonality_and_its_Hemiolic_Typology_and_their_antithesis_to_Western_tonality, Aleksey Nikolsky
The Rise of Music in the Ancient World : East and West, Curt Sachs
Ancient Greek Music, Martin L. West
Ancient Greek Music: A New Technical History, Steven Hagel
Microtonality in Ancient Greek Music, Michael Hewitt
The Sound of Medieval Song, Timothy J. Mc Gee
Music in the Texts from Ugarit, Matahisa Koitabasi:
https://www.academia.edu/38789419/Music_in_the_Texts_from_Ugarit
A Musical and Mathematical Context for CBS 1766, Leon Crickmore:
https://www.academia.edu/1618638/A_Musical_and_Mathematical_Context_for_CBS_1766
Musical Ensembles, Krispjin:
https://www.academia.edu/37109059/Krispijn_iconea2008_Musical_Ensembles_pdf
The Babylonian Musical Notation and the Hurrian Melodic Texts, M. L. West:
https://musicircle.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Babylonian-Notatin-and-the-Hurrian-Melodic-Texts_Music-and-Letters-1994-WEST-161-79.pdf
Is Nid Qabli Dorian ? Tuning and modality in Greek and Hurrian music, Stefan Hagel:
https://www.academia.edu/47502712/Is_nid_qabli_dorian_Tuning_and_modality_in_greek_and_hurrian_music
The Musical Instruments from Ur and Ancient Mesopotamian Music: Anne Draffkorn Kilmer: https://www.penn.museum/people/person/999
New Light on the Babylonian Tonal System, Leon Crickmore: https://www.academia.edu/278555/NEW_LIGHT_ON_THE_BABYLONIAN_TONAL_SYSTEM_ICONEA_2008_11_22
Was Mesopotamian Tuning Diatonic? A Parsimonious Answer, Jay Rahn: https://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.22.28.1/mto.22.28.1.rahn.php
Mesopotamian Music Theory Since 1977, Anne Draffkorn Kilmer:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110340297.92/html
Mesopotamian Music (pre-Islamic), Bo Lawergren:
https://www.academia.edu/11728399/Mesopotamian_Music_Pre_Islamic_in_English
A Hurrian Musical Score from Ugarit, The Discovery of Mesopotamian Music, Marcelle Duchesne-Guillemin:
https://urkesh.org/attach/duchesne-guillermin%201984%20the%20discovery%20of%20mesopotamian%20music.pdf
Interview with Anne Kilmer:
https://archive.ph/ewHL7
The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East, Richard Dumbrill
The earliest evidence of heptatonism in a late Old Babylonian text: CBS 1766
https://www.academia.edu/243915/Earliest_Evidence_of_Heptatonism
Organum Duplum aux 12ème et 13ème siècles, Alban Thomas, https://academia.edu/resource/work/84526550
Organum, Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/art/organum
Performing Medieval Music, Part 2/3: Turning Monophony Into Polyphony: https://earlymusicmuse.com/performingmedievalmusic2of3/
The Ancient Art of Organum: https://youtu.be/N37SWKrUz0w
• "The Sound of Medieval Song, Ornamentation and Vocal Style According to the Treatises"
Timothy J. McGee, Latin translations by Randall A. Rosenfeld
Intro 00:00
Mesopotamia 02:00
Ancient Greece 08:55
Middle-Ages: the East 12:50
Middle-Ages: Western Europe 19:30
Associations: “this sounds Eastern” 24:10