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A. P. David (Assistant Professor, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin)

The Dance of the Muses

Choral Theory and Ancient Greek Poetics

A. P. David (Assistant Professor, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin)

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English
Oxford University Press
01 October 2006
Early music (up to c 1000 CE); Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
This book develops an authentic and at the same time revolutionary musical analysis of ancient Greek poetry. It departs from the abstract metrical analyses of the past in that it conceives the rhythmic and harmonic elements of poetry as integral to the whole expression, and decisive in the interpretation of its meaning. David offers a thoroughgoing treatment of Homeric poetics: here some remarkable discoveries in the harmonic movement of epic verse, when combined with some neglected facts about the origin of the hexameter in a 'dance of the Muses', lead to essential new thinking about the genesis and the form of Homeric poetry. He also gives a foretaste of the fruits to be harvested in lyric by a musical analysis, which applies a new theory of the Greek tonic accent and considers concretely the role of dance in performance.
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Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 223mm,  Width: 145mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   482g
ISBN:   9780199292400
ISBN 10:   019929240X
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
1: Introduction: the right comparison 2: Choreia and the musical text 3: The voice of the dancer: a new theory of the Greek accent 4: The form of the hexameter: the origins of caesura and diaeresis 5: The `choral signifier': the shaping of Homeric speech 6: Retrogression, episode, and anagogy: the round dance and narrative form 7: The genesis of Homeric poetry (a brief synthesis): the `intemporizing' cataloguer 8: The lyric orchestra

A. P. David completed his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.

Reviews for The Dance of the Muses: Choral Theory and Ancient Greek Poetics

develops a new approach to the interpretation of ancient Greek poetry * Massimo Giuseppetti, The Classical Review * ...David often asks important questions that the scholarly discourse tends to avoid, and soemtimes proposes fascinating answers... * Stefan Hagel, GNOMON *


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