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Music and the Muses - The Culture of Mousike in the Classical Athenian City (Hardcover, New)
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Music and the Muses - The Culture of Mousike in the Classical Athenian City (Hardcover, New)
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What was the role of mousike, the realm of the Muses, in Greek
life? More wide-ranging in its implications than the English
'music', mousike lay at the heart of Greek culture, and was often
indeed synonymous with culture. In its commonest form, it
represented for the Greeks a seamless complex of music, poetic
word, and physical movement, encompassing a vast array of
performances - from small-scale entertainment in the private home
to elaborate performances involving the entire community. Yet the
history of the field, particularly in anglophone scholarship, has
been hitherto narrowly conceived, and the broader cultural
significance of mousike largely ignored. Focusing mainly on
classical Athens these new and specially commissioned essays
analyse the theory and practice of musical performance in a variety
of social contexts and demonstrate the centrality of mousike to the
values and ideology of the polis. The so-called 'new musical
revolution' in late fifth-century Athens receives serious treatment
in this volume for the first time. A major theme of the book is the
musical and mousike dimension of Greek religion, rarely analysed in
its own right. The ethical and philosophical aspects of Athenian
mousike are another central concern, with the figure of the dancing
philosopher as an emblem of music's role in intellectual life. The
book as a whole provides an integrated cultural analysis of central
aspects of Greek mousike, which will be of interest to classical
scholars, to cultural historians, and to anyone concerned with
understanding the power of music as a cultural phenomenon.
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