Ancient Greek Music

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8095848
AutoresM L West (autor correspondente)
Ano1992
Páginas409
Data de publicação1992-10-01
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoAncient Greek music (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780198148975.001.0001
OpenAlexW2801349723
Open LibraryOL2028977M
ISBN9780198148975
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas185

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

Aesthetics · Ancient Greek · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · History of music · Linguistics · Literature · Melody · Modern Greek · Music education · Music history · Musical · Musical notation · Notation · Rhythm · Subject (documents · Transcription (linguistics · Visual arts · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Diverse Musicological Studies · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Greek and Roman Music · Griekse oudheid · History and criticism · Music, greek and roman · Musique · Musique grecque antique · Musique grecque et romaine · Muziek · Vie musicale · Classics · History · Music · Philosophy