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Music, Text, and Culture in Ancient Greece (Hardcover)
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Music, Text, and Culture in Ancient Greece (Hardcover)
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What difference does music make to performance poetry, and how did
the ancients themselves understand this relationship? Although
scholars have long recognized the importance of music to ancient
performance culture, little has been written on the specific
effects that musical accompaniment, and features such as rhythmical
structure and melody, would have created in individual poems. This
volume attempts to answer these questions by exploring more fully
the relationship between music and language in the poetry of
ancient Greece. Arranged into two parts, the essays in the first
half engage closely with the evidential and interpretative
challenges posed by the interaction of ancient music and poetry,
and propose original readings of a range of texts by authors such
as Homer, Pindar, and Euripides, as well as later poets such as
Seikilos and Mesomedes. While they emphasize different formal
features, they also argue collectively for a two-way relationship
between music and language: attention to the musical features of
poetic texts, insofar as we can reconstruct them, enables us to
better understand not only their effects on audiences, but also the
various ways in which they project and structure meaning. In the
second part, the focus shifts to ancient attempts to conceptualize
interactions between words and music; the essays in this section
analyse the contested place that music occupied in the works of
Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, and other critical writers of the
Hellenistic and Imperial periods. Thinking about music is shown to
influence other domains of intellectual life, such as literary
criticism, and to be vitally informed by ethical concerns. These
essays illustrate the importance of music for intellectual culture
in ancient Greece and the ancients' abiding concern to understand
and control its effects on human behaviour.
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