Music and Musicians in Ancient Greece / Warren D. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Warren D., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musical Arts & Ethnomusicology.

Local Subjects:

Musical Arts & Ethnomusicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.) : 31 b/w illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

What do we know, or what can we reasonably conjecture, about ancient Greek musicmakers and what they played or sang?Drawing on a vast array of sources both in literature and in art, Warren D. Anderson here illuminates the place of musicians and music-making in Greek life from the Archaic to the Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman periods. Although he focuses on the fifth century B.C., he devotes more attention to the earlier centuries than they usually receive, and provides many pertinent illustrations of vase paintings, frescoes, and sculptures.In his treatment of the musicians, Anderson addresses such topics as their costumes and sacral robes, their affinities with shamans and gods, the nature of their identification with the individual (the "outsider") or with the group, and their status as slaves or as freeborn citizens. As part of the larger picture, he discusses their instruments, principally the lyre or kithara and the double reed pipes, and he introduces the musical practices of other cultures as suggestive parallels.Appendices include technical descriptions of the instruments, details of scale-building and notation, and fragmentary remains of actual texts with notation, among them settings of passages from Euripides' tragedies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Plates

Preface

1. From the Beginnings to the Dark Age

2. From Orpheus to the Homeric Hymns

3. Early Lyric Poets

4. Fifth-Century Lyric Poets

5. Fifth-Century Music

6. Plato and Aristotle

Appendix A. Fifth-Century Instrumental Resources

Appendix B. Scale Systems and Notation

Appendix C. Musical Examples

Bibliography

Discography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-5017-3322-2

OCLC:

1178769696