Dissonance

Alexander Gurd Sean

Description

In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deeply into auditory experience. They charted its capacity to develop topologies distinct from those of the other senses; contemplated its use as a communicator of information; calculated its power to express and cause extreme emotion. They made sound too, artfully and self-consciously creating songs and poems that reveled in sonorousness. Dissonance reveals the commonalities between ancient Greek auditory art and the concerns of contemporary sound studies, avant-garde music, and aesthetics, making the argument that "classical" Greek song and drama were, in fact, an early European avant-garde, a proto-exploration of the aesthetics of noise. The book thus develops an alternative to that romantic ideal which sees antiquity as a frozen and silent world.

Informations

• Publié par: Fordham University Press
• Date de parution: 01 juillet 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780823269679
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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DISSONANCE

DISSONANCE

AUDITORY AESTHETICS IN ANCIENT GREECE

SEAN ALEXANDER GURD

Fordham University PressNew York

2016

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CONTENTS

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Note on Sources and Citations

Prologue

Capo

Figures

Affect

Music

Coda

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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NOTE ON SOURCES AND CITATIONS

References to ancient sources are abbreviated according to theOxford Classical Dictionary(3rd edition). Sources of ancient texts are noted the first time they are cited. Translations are my own. I use the following abbreviations:

Campbell Campbell, D. A., ed. and trans.Greek Lyric. 5 vols. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982–1993. DK Kranz, W., and H. Diels, eds.Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. Zürich: Weidmann, 1966. FGrH Jacoby, F., ed.Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. Berlin: Weidmann, 1923–1959. IEG West, M., ed.Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati. 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989–1992. LIMC Ackermann, H. C., J. -R. Gisler, and L. Kahil, eds.Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae. Zürich: Artemis, 1981. LP Lobel, E., and D. L. Page, eds.Poetarum Lesbiorum fragmenta. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. LSJ Liddell, H. G., R. Scott, and H. S. Jones.A Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. PCG Kassel, R., and C. Austin, eds.Poetae comici Graeci. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1983–. PMG D. L. Page, ed.Poetae Melici Graeci. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962. TrGF R. Kannicht, S. Radt, and B. Snell, eds.Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1986–2004.

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