Music and sex are commonly associated everywhere, in every time, another human universal. In short, the lack of connection between music and sex in Aegean art supports Younger's first point about Aegean peoples' opinion that music had strong emotional and ethical effects that seemed dangerous or subversive, to Plato, certainly, and perhaps also for the Greeks of 800 years before him. It must be significant that instruments that can be played standing up, and so allow the player to move vigorously, like the phorminx, are not shown played by women. But on these questions I hope the interested reader will pick up Music of the Aegean Bronze Age and make up her or his own mind. The book includes a critical catalogue of all archaeological finds from the Aegean that relate in some way to Bronze Age Music.
Plates illustrate the most important artifacts.
The study of ancient music is going to have to be rebuilt stone by toppled stone, and in my opinion this book puts in place a block of sound structural quality. This book, as well as others in the series, may be difficult to obtain from your local bookshop. On the piano, the interval from, say E to A above. British Museum Press, 1991. Younger quotes from M.L. West's Ancient Greek Music , p. 45 5.