| Description |
1 online resource (547 p.) |
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Ser |
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Ancient Notion of Mousikē -- The Organization of This Companion -- Notes -- References -- Part 1 Mythical Paradigms -- Chapter 1 The Mythology of the Muses -- Harmony, Pleasure, and Power -- Memory -- Performance, Consolation, and Mortality -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 2 Apollo and Music -- Apollo in His Mediterranean Context -- Apolline Music and Myth -- Instruments -- Genres -- Locations -- Apollo and Swans |
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Civic Harmony -- Philosophy, Apollo's Powers: Bows, Prophecy -- Total Music: The Roman Empire -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Dionysus and the Ambiguity of Orgiastic Music -- Introduction -- The Features of Dionysian Music -- Dionysus, Orgiasm, and Phrygian Harmonia -- Dionysus and the Muses -- Dionysus and the Invention of the Tympana -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 4 Pan and the Music of Nature -- A Hybrid, Lustful, Musical God -- Pan's Inscape and the Soundscape -- Pan's Alternatives: Pastoral and Materialism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References |
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Chapter 5 Musical Heroes -- Magical Music: Orpheus, Arion, Amphion -- String Music in Myth: Musaeus and Linus -- Wind Music in Myth: The Phrygian Triad -- Music of Love and Beauty: Thamyris, Phaon, Adonis -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 6 Musical Metamorphoses in the Roman World -- General Considerations -- Syrinx -- Apollo and Pan -- Polyphemus -- Marsyas -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Part 2 Contexts and Practices -- Chapter 7 Ancient Musical Performance in Context: Places, Settings, and Occasions -- Occasional Places: A Topographical Survey |
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Architectural Spaces: The Equipment for Musical Performances and the Invention of the Theatrical Buildings -- A Case Study: Apollo's Sanctuary in Delphi (Phocis) -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 8 Documenting Music -- The Material Media of Ancient Scores -- Contexts and Usages of Documents with Musical Notation -- Distinguishing Features of Ancient Musical Documents and the Case of P.Oslo inv. 1413 -- Music Without Scores? Oral Tradition and Writing -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 9 Visualizing Music -- Challenges of Creation |
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Challenges of Interpretation -- New Directions in Musical Iconography -- Acknowledgments -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 10 Music in Classical Greek Drama -- Vocal Mousikē in Classical Greek Drama -- The Aulos and Other Musical Instruments -- Dance -- The Grammar of Dramatic Mousikē: Meters, Rhythms, and Harmoniai -- Development of Drama in Later Classical Age -- Notes -- Further Readings -- References -- Chapter 11 Music in Roman Drama -- The Ubiquity of Music -- Music and Text -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 12 Ancient Greek Choreia -- Defining Choreia |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Choreia and the City |
| Subject |
Music, Greek and Roman -- History and criticism
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Music, Greek and Roman -- Philosophy and aesthetics
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Music, Greek and Roman
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rocconi, Eleonora
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| ISBN |
9781119275497 |
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1119275490 |
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