De Organographia:
Philip Neuman, Gayle Stuwe Neuman combine astute musicology,
performance practice and instrument crafting in the realization
of this amazing collection of music from 1950 BC to 300 AD. From
the world's oldest notated music, vocal renderings are accompanied
with performed lyres, kithara, pandoura, double reed pipes, flutes
and other ancient instruments.
Track Titles
1. Musical Excerpts....Anon. (2nd c. AD)
2. Lament...Anon. (2nd or 3rd c. AD)
3. Fragment 1...Anon. (2nd c. AD)
4. Paean...Anon. (3rd or 4th c. AD)
5. Trochaic fragment....Anon. (3rd c. AD)
6. Four settings of a line from "Epitrepontes" by Menander...Anon.(3rd c.AD)
7. Excerpts mentioning Eros and Aphrodite...Anon. (2nd or 3rd c. AD)
8. Musical excerpt...Anon. (3rd c. AD)
9. Hypolydian excerpt...Anon. (2nd or 3rd c. AD)
10. Fragment 3...Anon. (3rd c. AD)
11. A zaluzi to the gods...Anon. (c. 1225 BC)
12. Hurrian Hymns 19 and 23...Anon. (c.1225 BC)
13. Hurrian Hymns 13 and 12...Urhiya/Anon. (c. 1225 BC)
14. Hurrian Hymn 2...Anon. (c. 1225 BC)
15. Hurrian Hymn 8...Urhiya (c. 1225 BC)
16. Hurrian Hymn 5...Puhiya(na) (c. 1225 BC)
17. Hurrian Hymns 4, 21 and 22... Anon. (c. 1225 BC)
18. Hurrian Hymns 7 and 10...Anon. (c. 1225 BC)
19. Hurrian Hymns 16 and 30...Anon. (c.1225 BC)
20. Musical Instructions for "Lipit-Ishtar, King of Justice" (c. 1950 BC)
21. Trumpet call...Anon./Plutarch
22. Isis sistrum rhythm...Anon./Apuleius
23. Theban banquet scene...Anon. (14th c. BC)
24./25. Harp pieces (A) (B)...Anon. (7th or 6th c. BC)
Other audio CD titles in the NPM catalogue which
feature or include the works of De Organographia:
French Music from the 14th Century --
Ars Nova period realizations on replicated period instruments.
L'Autre Jour --
harp music from the 18th & 19th Centuries, featuring Laura Zaerr.
Carnevale --
Renaissance Italian Festival Music.
One Horse Open Sleigh --
19th Century Christmas Music on original and replicated instruments.
Everything is Ragtime Now --
rare rags from the early 20th Century played on period instruments, featuring Allan Martin.
Music of the Ancient Greeks
