What Historic Greek Music Sounded Like: Hearken to a Reconstruction That is “100% Correct”

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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Historic Greeks com­posed songs meant to be accom­pa­nied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and var­i­ous per­cus­sion instru­ments. Greater than 2,000 years lat­er, mod­ern schol­ars have closing­ly fig­ured out easy methods to recon­struct and per­kind these songs with (it’s claimed) 100% accu­ra­cy. Writ­ing on the BBC internet­web site, Armand D’An­gour, a…

What Victorian Individuals Sounded Like: Hear Recordings of Florence Nightingale & Queen Victoria Herself

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Greater than 120 years after the top of the Vic­to­ri­an period, we’d assume that we retain a kind of accu­fee cul­tur­al mem­o­ry of the Vic­to­ri­ans them­selves: of their social mores, their aes­thet­ic sen­si­bil­i­ties, their ambi­tions nice and small, their many and var­ied hang-ups. Among the most vivid rep­re­sen­ta­tions of those qual­i­ties have come right down…