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The Songs of Aristophanes (Hardcover, New)
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The Songs of Aristophanes (Hardcover, New)
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A comedy of Aristophanes was in large measure a musical
performance, and his lyric verse covers a wide range of styles -
from popular song to parody of tragedy. The music is lost, and our
only way of recovering something of the experience of an Athenian
audience is by studying the rhythms of the poetry. This book
provides a full text, with scansions, of the lyric of the surviving
plays, and an introduction to the different rhythms used by
Aristophanes, their origins, and literary associations. Dr Parker
pays particular attention to showing the role played by lyric metre
in the structure of the plays and to distinguishing the different
levels of musical style, thus illustrating the integral part metre
plays in Aristophanes' dramatic art and satire. She also discusses
fully the metrical aspects of textual problems in Aristophanes'
lyric, and a section of the introduction traces the evolution of
the study of Aristophanes' metres and the influence this has on the
text.
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