As we
review the recent history of music history books, we see that finally
archaeology is now forcing music historians to retain God in their
knowledge. Grout basically fails to
recognize the authenticity of Bible music, and seems to lean toward the “real”
history of music beginning with the Greeks.
Borroff doesn’t do any better with her analysis of the beginnings of
music.
By the
time of Stolba’s book the evidence is overwhelming that, based on the evidence
available, Western music did not start in the West, but rather in the Near
East. If they had listened to Plato,
music historians could have avoided much of these misconceptions. Most certainly a careful study of the te’amim
would have proven a written music long before the existing Greek fragments.
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