Music and Dance in Greece and Rome

Bibliographic Data

ID23670844
AuthorsEleonora Rocconi (0000-0001-8130-1996, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages81-93
Publication date2015-05-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeOTHER
VenueA Companion to Ancient Aesthetics (JOURNAL)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781119009795.ch5
OpenAlexW1526041359
ISBN9781119009795
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited17

In antiquity, the art of mousikē embraced the entire field of poetic performance to which the Muses gave their name, including music, poetry, and dance. Both vocal and instrumental music were conceived as mimetic arts, having a more or less (according to the genre) explicit narrative and representative content, highly developed in theatrical genres, where the dramatic flow was easily combined with the musical structure. In Archaic and Classical Greece, music performances (regarded as the most effective means to arouse deep emotions in the audience) were mainly used to convey and reinforce the values shared by the community. The increasing emergence of soloists and professional performers, however, gradually transformed music exhibitions into spectacular entertainment. The aesthetics typical of Hellenistic show business thus found fertile ground in Rome, where it developed on a large scale.

Aesthetics · Art · Dance · Entertainment · Exhibition · Literature · Music education · Musical · Narrative · Poetry · Popular music · The arts · Visual arts · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · Music

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