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Author : Pauline A. LeVen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107148741
Examines questions raised, in antiquity and now, by mythical narratives about humans transforming into non-human musical beings.
Author : Tosca A. C. Lynch,Eleonora Rocconi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119275497
"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"--
Author : Laura Salah Nasrallah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009405737
This book shows how Ancient Christians both used curses and criticized them in ancient Mediterranean religion and society.
Author : David Walter Leinweber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Metamorphosis
ISBN : MSU:31293007917630
Author : Lauren Curtis,Naomi Weiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781108831666
Combines multiple theoretical perspectives and diverse media to examine the relation between music and memory in ancient Greece and Rome.
Author : Edward A. Lippman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Music, Greek and Roman
ISBN : OCLC:1074954041
Author : M. L. West
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0191586854
Ancient Greece was permeated by music, and the literature teems with musical allusions. For most readers the subject has remained a closed book. Here at last is a clear, comprehensive, and authoritative account that presupposes no special knowledge of music. Topics covered include the place of music in Greek life; instruments; rhythm; tempo; modes and scales; melodic construction; form; ancient theory and notation; and historical development. Thirty surviving examples of Greek music are presented in modern transcription with analysis, and the book is fully illustrated. Besides being considered on its own terms, Greek music is here further illuminated by being seen in ethnological perspective, and a brief Epilogue sets it in its place in a border zone between Afro-Asiatic and European culture. The book will be of value both to classicists and historians of music. - ;The only available study in English of Ancient Greek music -
Author : Andrew Barker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521389119
Vol. 1: The musician an d his art ; vol. 2: Harmonic and acoustic theory.
Author : Warren D. Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015033960587
"Drawing on a vast array of sources both in literature and in art, Warren D. Anderson here illuminates the place of musicians and music-making in Greek life from the Archaic to the Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman periods." "In his treatment of the musicians, Anderson addresses such topics as their costumes and sacral robes, their affinities with shamans and gods, the nature of their identification with the individual (the "outsider") or with the group, and their status as slaves or as freeborn citizens. As part of the larger picture, he discusses their instruments, principally the lyre or kithara and the double reed pipes, and he introduces the musical practices of other cultures as suggestive parallels." "Appendices include technical descriptions of the instruments, details of scale-building and notation, and fragmentary remains of actual texts with notation, among them settings of passages from Euripides' tragedies."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : K. R. Moore
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000626193
This Companion covers a range of receptions of ancient Greek and Roman gender and sexuality. It explores ancient representations of these concepts as we define them today, as well as recent perspectives that have been projected back onto antiquity. Beginning in antiquity, the chapters examine how the ancient Greeks and Romans regarded concepts of what we would today call "gender" and "sexuality" based on the evidence available to us, and chart the varied interpretations and receptions of these concepts across time to the present day. In exploring how different cultures have "received" the classical past, the volume investigates these cultures’ different interpretations of Greek and Roman sexualities, and what these interpretations can reveal about their own attitudes. Through the contributions in this book, the reader gains a deeper understanding of this essential part of human existence, derived from influential sources. From ancient to modern and postmodern perspectives, from cinematic productions to TikTok videos, receptions of ancient gender and sexuality abound. This volume is of interest to students and scholars of ancient history, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, and ancient societies, as well as those working on popular culture and gender studies more broadly.
Author : Verity Jane Platt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521861717
This book explores divine manifestations and their representations not only in art, but also in literature, histories and inscriptions. The cultural analysis of epiphany is set within a historical framework that examines its development from the archaic period through the Hellenistic world and into the Roman Empire.
Author : Ingo Gildenhard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351538718
This groundbreaking volume maps the shifting place and function of marvelous transformations from antiquity to the present day. Shape-shifting, taking animal bodies, miracles, transubstantiation, alchemy, and mutation recur and echo throughout ancient and modern writing and thinking and continue in science fiction today as tales of gene-splicing and hybridisation. The idea of metamorphosis lies in uneasy coexistence with orderly world views and it is often cast out, or attributed to enemies. Augustine and the church fathers consider shape-shifting ungodly; Enlightenment thinkers suppress alchemy as unscientific; genetically-modified wheat and stem-cell research are stigmatised as unnatural. Yet the very possibility of radical transformation inspires hope just as it frightens. A provocative, theorising, trans-historical history, this book ranges across classics, literature, history, philosophy, theology and anthropology. From Homer and Ovid to Proust and H. P. Lovecraft and through figures from Proteus to Kafka's Fly and toSpiderman, four historical surveys are combined with nine case studies to show the malleable, yet persistent, presence of transformation throughout Western cultural history.
Author : Giovanni Comotti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000000339758
Although music was an essential part of Greek and Roman culture, modern introductions to the subject have often tended to be too general for the serious reader or too technical for all but the specialist. Aimed at a wider audience, this book offers a survey of Greek and Roman music from earliest times through the Roman imperial period. Drawing upon the full range of ancient source materials, from Plato and Aristotle to the latest papyrus finds, Comotti examines such topics as musical form and style, instruments, poet-composers, and the role of music in ancient society.
Author : Spencer A. Klavan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 135011992X
Life in ancient Greece was musical life and in this perfectly pitched introduction, Spencer Klavan explores its origins, forms, and place in society. Soloists competed onstage for popular accolades, becoming centrepieces for cultural conversation and even leading Plato to recommend that certain forms of music be banned from his ideal society. And the music didn't stop when the audience left the theatre: melody and rhythm were woven into the whole fabric of daily existence for the Greeks. Vocal and instrumental songs were part of religious rituals, dramatic performances, dinner parties, and even military campaigns. Like Detroit in the 1960s or Vienna in the 18th century, Athens in the 400s BC was the hotspot where celebrated artists collaborated and diverse strands of musical tradition converged. The conversations and innovations that unfolded there would lay the groundwork for musical theory and practice in Greece and Rome for centuries to come. In recent years, state-of-the-art research and digital technology have enabled us to decipher and understand Greek music with unprecedented precision. Yet many readers today cannot access the resources that would enable them to grapple with this richly rewarding subject. Arcane technical details and obscure jargon veil the subject - it is rarely known, for instance, that authentic melodies still survive from antiquity, helping us to imagine the vivid soundscapes of the Classical and Hellenistic eras. Music in Ancient Greece distills the latest discoveries into vivid prose so readers can come to grips with the basics as never before. With the tools in this book, beginners and specialists alike will learn to hear the ancient world afresh and come away with a new, musical perspective on their favourite classical texts.
Author : Flora R. Levin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1107459877
In this book, Flora Levin explores how and why music was so important to the ancient Greeks. She examines the distinctions that they drew between the theory of music as an art ruled by number and the theory wherein number is held to be ruled by the art of music. These perspectives generated more expansive theories, particularly the idea that the cosmos is a mirror-image of music's structural elements and, conversely, that music by virtue of its cosmic elements - time, motion, and the continuum - is itself a mirror-image of the cosmos. These opposing perspectives gave rise to two opposing schools of thought, the Pythagorean and the Aristoxenian. Levin argues that the clash between these two schools could never be reconciled because the inherent conflict arises from two different worlds of mathematics. Her book shows how the Greeks' appreciation of the profundity of music's interconnections with philosophy, mathematics, and logic led to groundbreaking intellectual achievements that no civilization has ever matched.