Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108926959 ISBN 13 : 9781108926959

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

In Greek mythology, the Muses are Memory's daughters. Their genealogy suggests a deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, but how was this connection understood and experienced by ancient authors, artists, performers, and audiences? How is music remembered and how does it memorialize in a world before recording technology, where sound accumulated differently than it does today? This volume explores music's role in the discourses of cultural memory, communication, and commemoration in ancient Greek and Roman societies. It reveals the many and varied ways in which musical memory formed a fundamental part of social, cultural, ritual, and political life in ancient Greek- and Latin-speaking communities, from classical Athens to Ptolemaic Alexandria and ancient Rome. Drawing on the contributors' interdisciplinary expertise in art history, philology, performance studies, history, and ethnomusicology, eleven original chapters and the editors' Introduction offer new approaches for the study of Graeco-Roman music and musical culture.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Lauren Curtis is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Bard College. She is the author of Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry (2017) and is currently working on a commentary on Ovid, Tristia 3 for Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics.

Naomi Weiss is the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. She is the author of The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater (2018) and co-editor of Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models (2019).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108926959
• ISBN 13: 9781108926959
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 380
• Éditeur: Curtis Lauren
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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