Stringed instruments of ancient Greece / Martha Maas and Jane McIntosh Snyder.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Maas, Martha, 1934-

Contributor:

• Snyder, Jane McIntosh.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Musical instruments, Ancient--Greece.
• Musical instruments, Ancient.
• Greece.

Physical Description:

xx, 261 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [1989]

Summary:

No ancient culture has left us more tantalizing glimpses of its music than that of the Greeks, whose art and literature continually speak to us of the role of music, its power, and its significance to their society. In this book two scholars--one of music and one of classics--join together to explore the musical life of ancient Greece, focusing on the Greek stringed instruments and, in particular, on the all-important lyre family.

Contents:

• 1 Homer and Before 1
• 2 The Archaic Period: New Things and Old 24
• 3 The Kithara in Classical Athens 53
• 4 The Chelys-Lyra in Classical Athens 79
• 5 The Barbitos in Classical Athens 113
• 6 Harps and Unusual Lyres in Classical Athens 139
• 7 Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Stringed Instruments 165
• Objects Mentioned 205.

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Bibliography: pages 245-255.

ISBN:

0300036868

OCLC:

15162727