The Music of Tragedy : Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater / Naomi A. Weiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiss, Naomi A., 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Music, Greek and Roman--History and criticism.

Music, Greek and Roman.

Euripides--Criticism and interpretation.

Euripides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Naomi Weiss demonstrates that Euripides' allusions to music-making are not just metatheatrical flourishes or gestures towards musical and religious practices external to the drama but closely interwoven with the dramatic plot. Situating Euripides' experimentation with the dramaturgical effects of mousike within a broader cultural context, she shows how much of his novelty lies in his reinvention of traditional lyric styles and motifs for the tragic stage. If we wish to understand better the trajectories of this most important ancient art form, The Music of Tragedy argues, we must pay closer attention to the role played by both music and text.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Note on Editions and Translations

Introduction. In Search of Tragedy's Music

1. Words, Music, and Dance in Archaic Lyric and Classical Tragedy

2. Chorus, Character, and Plot in Electra

3. Musical Absence in Trojan Women

4. Protean Singers and the Shaping of Narrative in Helen

5. From Choreia to Monody in Iphigenia in Aulis

Conclusion. Euripides' Musical Innovations

Works Cited

General Index

Index Locorum

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed July 8, 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520968493

0520968492

OCLC:

1013822013