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A companion to ancient Greek and Roman music
Title
A companion to ancient Greek and Roman music / edited by Tosca A. C. Lynch and Eleonora Rocconi.
ISBN
9781119275473
1119275474
9781119275497
9781119275503
Publication
Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2020.
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
xvii, 522 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Summary
"This chapter provides an overview of the Muses in Greek mythology and argues that their multiplicity, their indefinite number, their lack of fixed personalities and their metapoetic status make them highly unusual members of the Olympian pantheon. As the embodiment of music and the means by which music is channelled to human beings they are essential to our understanding of the meaning of mousikē in Greek culture. Above all their origins in an oral society foregrounds the performative nature of music which has characterised it as an art form throughout the ages"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: A companion to ancient Greek and Roman music [First edition.] Hoboken : Wiley, 2020.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 17, 2021
Series
Blackwell companions to the ancient world
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Mythical Paradigms. The Mythology of the Muses / Penelope Murray ; Apollo and Music / Ian Rutherford ; Dionysus and the Ambiguity of Orgiastic Music / Giorgio Ieranò ; Pan and the Music of Nature / Pauline LeVen ; Musical Heroes / Susanna Sarti ; Musical Metamorphoses in the Roman World / Luigi Galasso
Contexts and Practices. Ancient Musical Performance in Context : Places, Settings and Occasions / Sylvain Perrot ; Documenting Music / Maria Chiara Martinelli ; Visualizing Music / Sheramy Bundrick ; Music in Classical Greek Drama / Marco Ercoles ; Music in Roman Drama / Timothy J. Moore ; Ancient Greek Choreia / Naomi A. Weiss ; Roman Dance / Zoa Alonso Fernández ; Musical Competitors and Competitions in Greece and Rome / Timothy Power ; The Vocal Art in Greek and Roman Antiquity / Kostantinos Melidis ; Musical Instruments of Greek and Roman Antiquity / Chrestos Terzēs ; Ancient Greek Music and the Near East / John Franklin
Conceptualising Music : Musical Theory and Thought. Acoustics / Egert Pöhlmann ; Harmonics / Andrew Barker ; Rhythmics / Tosca A.C. Lynch ; Notation / Stefan Hagel ; Music in Greek and Roman Education / Massimo Raffa ; Musical Aesthetics / Eleonora Rocconi ; Music and Emotions / Francesco Pelosi ; Music and Medicine / Antonietta Provenza ; The Music of the Words in Roman Rhetoric / Verena Schulz ; Music and Society : Musical Identities, Ideology and Politics. Between Local and Global : Music and Cultural Identity in Ancient Greece / Mark Griffith ; Music and Gender in Greek and Roman Culture : Female Performers and Composers / Mariella De Simone ; 'Old' and 'New' Music : The Ideology of Mousikē / Armand D'Angour ; The Politics of Theater Music in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Greece / Eric Csapo and Peter Wilson ; Music, Power and Propaganda in Julio-Claudian Imperial Rome (27 BC-68 AD) / Paola Dessì
'Rediscovering Ancient Music' : The Cultural Heritage of Mousikē. The Reception of Greek Musical Theory in the Middle Ages : Boethius and the Depictions of Ancient Musicians / Cecilia Panti ; Ancient Greek Music in Early Modern Italy : Performance and Self-Representation / Donatella Restani ; The Visual Heritage : Images of Ancient Music before and after the Rediscovery of Pompeii / Daniela Castaldo
Appendix. Diagrams of the Ancient Modes (Harmoniai) as Aulos and Lyre Tunings / Tosca A.C. Lynch.<br><br>
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