Thyra-Lilja Altunin
Biographic Data
| ID | 9963686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thyra-Lilja Altunin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thyra-Lilja |
| FAMILY NAME | Altunin |
| SIGNATURE | ALTUNIN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-9822-3350 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Recovering Ancient Greek Poetic Melodic Patterns
This paper presents a novel method for recovering and analysing the melodic elements of ancient Greek poetic prosody, utilising the commonality between the melodic patterns of speech and music. Central to this analysis is the concept of “melodic contour”, a tool used in both ethnomusicology and phonology. Unlike general pitch progressions (which contain both absolute pitch and movement), melodic contour tracks only the direction of pitch movement…
The Sound of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Created when ancient Greek poetry was primarily composed, performed, and experienced through oral traditions, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter reflects and preserves within its words elements of its soundscape as a performed song and the memories/emotions/reactions that it would have triggered in its audience. The intonational patterns of the Greek words and phrases encoded within the text’s accentuation, when they were expressed through the performer…
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Recovering Ancient Greek Poetic Melodic Patterns
This paper presents a novel method for recovering and analysing the melodic elements of ancient Greek poetic prosody, utilising the commonality between the melodic patterns of speech and music. Central to this analysis is the concept of “melodic contour”, a tool used in both ethnomusicology and phonology. Unlike general pitch progressions (which contain both absolute pitch and movement), melodic contour tracks only the direction of pitch movement…
The Sound of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Created when ancient Greek poetry was primarily composed, performed, and experienced through oral traditions, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter reflects and preserves within its words elements of its soundscape as a performed song and the memories/emotions/reactions that it would have triggered in its audience. The intonational patterns of the Greek words and phrases encoded within the text’s accentuation, when they were expressed through the performer…
Classical Antiquity Studies (2 works) · Melody (2 works) · Musical (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Acoustics (1 work) · Ancient Greek (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Diverse Musicological Studies (1 work) · Hymn (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work)