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A Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Music
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 Mytholo...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Newark
: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
, 2020
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| Series: | Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Ser
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6242910 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | 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 -- 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 -- 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. 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 -- 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 -- Choreia and the City -- Dancing Dolphins and the Choral Imaginary -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 13 Roman Dance -- Roman Choreia -- Roman Religious Dance -- Morality -- Imperial Pantomime -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 14 Musical Competitors and Competitions in Greece and Rome -- The Agonistic Spirit of Mousikē -- Agōnes: Music, Religion, Politics -- Competitions and Competitors -- Elusive Agonists -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 15 The Vocal Art in Greek and Roman Antiquity -- Introduction -- Vocal Exercises -- Special Diet: The Voice and Life Hygiene -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References. Chapter 16 Musical Instruments of Greek and Roman Antiquity -- Stringed Instruments -- Wind Instruments -- Aulos' Types and Functions -- Synthesis -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 17 Ancient Greek Music and the Near East -- Introduction -- The Bronze Age (to c. 1200) -- The Cypro-Levantine Interface -- The Classical Period (c. 500-323) -- Looking Ahead (323-) -- Notes -- References -- Part 3 Conceptualizing Music: Musical Theory and Thought -- Chapter 18 Acoustics -- Introduction -- The Presocratics and the First Acoustic Theories -- The Atomists and the Corpuscular Theories of Sound -- Archytas, Plato, and Aristotle on Acoustics -- Heraclides, Euclides, and Ps.-Aristotle's De audibilibus -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 19 Harmonics -- Introduction -- Empirical Harmonics -- Mathematical Harmonics8 -- Relations between Mathematical and Empirical Harmonics -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 20 Rhythmics -- Rhythm versus Harmonia and Meter -- Aristoxenus' "Science" of Rhythmics -- Rhythmical Feet: Simple and Compound -- "Mixed" Rhythmical Feet -- Six-Time Mixed Rhythms -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 21 Notation -- Characteristics of Melodic Notation -- Signs Coming in Triplets -- Ancient Tonoi and Modern Keys -- The Origin of the Basic Signs -- Transcribing an Ancient Melody in Modern Notation -- Rhythmical Notation -- Case Study: A Song from a Songbook -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 22 Music in Greek and Roman Education -- Singing Heroes, Singing Citizens -- Learning Music: Kitharistai, Chorodidaskaloi, and the Rise of Professionalism -- Learning Music Theory: Treatises on Music and Their Readership -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 23 Musical Aesthetics -- Preliminaries -- Assessing Musical Experiences -- Musical Beauties -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Further Reading -- References. Chapter 24 Music and Emotions -- Plato, Aristotle, and Theophrastus on Music and Emotions -- Reason, Pathos, and Sound: Epicureans and Stoics on Music and Emotions -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 25 Music and Medicine -- The Earliest Evidence on Music Therapy in Greece -- The Pharmacological Essence of Music -- Musical Healing between Medicine and Musicology -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 26 The Music of the Words in Roman Rhetoric -- Introduction: The Relationship between Music and Rhetoric -- Musical Aspects of the Orator's Voice -- The Modulation of the Orator's Voice -- The Voice as the Orator's "Instrument" -- Vocal Modulations: Gaius Gracchus and the Fistula -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Part 4 Music and Society: Musical Identities, Ideology, and Politics -- Chapter 27 Between Local and Global: Music and Cultural Identity in Ancient Greece -- Introduction -- Greek Music and Its Near Eastern Origins -- Language and Dialect -- Some Particular Regional Musics -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 28 Music and Gender in Greek and Roman Culture: Female Performers and Composers -- Women and Music in the Greek World -- Women and Music in Rome -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 29 "Old" and "New" Music: The Ideology of Mousikē -- The New Music -- Elements of the New Music -- "Old" Music -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 30 The Politics of Theater Music in Fifth‐ and Fourth-Century Greece -- Music, Politics, and Theater in Athens and Attica -- Democracies and Theater Music -- Oligarchies and Theater Music -- Autocracies and Theater Music -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 31 Music, Power, and Propaganda in Julio‐Claudian Imperial Rome(27 BC-68 AD) -- Public Spectacles -- Technological Progress and Sound-Producing Machines -- Portrayal of the Emperor. Notes -- References -- Part 5 Rediscovering Ancient Music: The Cultural Heritage of Mousikē -- Chapter 32 The Reception of Greek Music Theory in the Middle Ages:: Boethius and the Portraits of Ancient Musicians -- The Legacy of Greek Music Theory in Byzantine, Arabic, and Latin Sources -- Boethius' De Institutione Musica -- Pythagoras, from the Search of a Philosophical Method to the "Invention" of Music -- Claudius Ptolemy: Reason, Hearing, and the Musica Humana -- Aristoxenus, Aristotle, and the Qualitative Nature of Consonances -- References -- Chapter 33 Ancient Greek Music in Early Modern Italy: Performance and Self-Representation -- Introduction -- Libraries and Musical Edutainment -- Cultural Politics and Musical Performance -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 34 The Visual Heritage: Images of Ancient Music before and after the Rediscovery of Pompeii -- The Visual Representations before the Rediscovery of Pompeii -- Giovan Battista Doni and the Ancient Lyres -- Caspar Bartholin and Representations of the Wind Instruments -- Francesco Bianchini's Tribus Generum Instrumentorum -- Francesco Bonanni and the Works on Music at the End of Eighteenth Century -- Charles Burney and the Rediscovery of Pompeii -- The Taste of Antiquity at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century -- References -- Appendix Diagrams of the Ancient Modes (Harmoniai) as Aulos and Lyre Tunings -- The Ancient Harmoniai as Aulos Tunings -- The Ancient Harmoniai as Lyre Tunings -- References -- General Index -- EULA. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (547 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781119275497 |
