<b>Vocable Workout: </b><b><i>Oktokaidekasemos</i></b><b> (‘18-Beat’)</b>

<p dir="ltr">Sheet music for voices and body percussion. Duration c. 7’</p><p dir="ltr">Melody from a Roman-era schoolbook, rhythmically reconstructed by Stefan Hagel (2008), with choreography and musical arranging by Barnaby Brown and Stef Conner (2022). A modern composition based on ancient materials for any community, any time, any age, anywhere.</p><p dir="ltr">Hagel’s 18-beat and 8-beat reconstructions (two alternative solutions) are found on pages 160 and 168 of <a href="https://doi.org/10.1163/22129758-12341316" target="_blank"><u>https://doi.org/10.1163/22129758-12341316</u></a>.</p><p dir="ltr">For more on these ancient vocables, see <a href="https://doi.org/10.1163/22129758-bja10042" target="_blank"><u>https://doi.org/10.1163/22129758-bja10042</u></a>.</p><h2>Sources and scholarship</h2><p dir="ltr"><b><i>Melody:</i></b> Anon. Bellermann A 101 = DAGM 37.<br>HAGEL, Stefan (2008). Ancient Greek rhythm: the Bellermann exercises. <i>Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica</i>, 88: 129–31.<br>HAGEL, Stefan (2018). ‘Musics’, Bellermann’s <i>Anonymi</i>, and the art of the aulos. <i>Greek and Roman Musical </i><i>Studies</i>, 6/1: 160.</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p><p dir="ltr"><b><i>Vocables:</i></b> Anon. Bellermann § 77, 86 and 91–93; Aristides Quintilianus 1.6 and 2.14.<br>HAGEL, Stefan (2022). Ancient ‘solmisation’ and the meaning of notes. <i>Greek and Roman Musical Studies</i>, 10/1: 136–175.</p>