Dissonance : Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece / Sean Alexander Gurd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gurd, Sean Alexander, 1973- Author.

Series:

Idiom inventing writing theory.

Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound (Philosophy).

Aesthetics, Ancient.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deeply into auditory experience. They charted its capacity to develop topologies distinct from those of the other senses; contemplated its use as a communicator of information; calculated its power to express and cause extreme emotion. They made sound too, artfully and self-consciously creating songs and poems that reveled in sonorousness. Dissonance reveals the commonalities between ancient Greek auditory art and the concerns of contemporary sound studies, avant-garde music, and aesthetics, making the argument that “classical” Greek song and drama were, in fact, an early European avant-garde, a proto-exploration of the aesthetics of noise. The book thus develops an alternative to that romantic ideal which sees antiquity as a frozen and silent world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Note on Sources and Citations

Prologue

Capo

1. Figures

2. Affect

3. Music

Coda

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

ISBN:

0-8232-7187-0

0-8232-6968-X

0-8232-6967-1

OCLC:

949903709