Music And Metamorphosis In Greco Roman Thought

Author : Pauline A. LeVen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009028391
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Metamorphosis in Graeco-Roman Thought written by Pauline A. LeVen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does music come from? What kind of agency does a song have? What is at the root of musical pleasure? Can music die? These are some of the questions the Greeks and the Romans asked about music, song, and the soundscape within which they lived, and that this book examines. Focusing on mythical narratives of metamorphosis, it investigates the aesthetic and ontological questions raised by fantastic stories of musical origins. Each chapter opens with an ancient text devoted to a musical metamorphosis (of a girl into a bird, a nymph into an echo, men into cicadas, etc.) and reads that text as a meditation on an aesthetic and ontological question, in dialogue with 'contemporary' debates – contemporary with debates in the Greco-Roman culture that gave rise to the story, and with modern debates in the posthumanities about what it means to be a human animal enmeshed in a musicking environment.

Author : Pauline A. LeVen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110714874X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Metamorphosis in Greco-Roman Thought written by Pauline A. LeVen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines questions raised, in antiquity and now, by mythical narratives about humans transforming into non-human musical beings.

Author : Tosca A. C. Lynch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119275490
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Music written by Tosca A. C. Lynch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This chapter provides an overview of the Muses in Greek mythology and argues that their multiplicity, their indefinite number, their lack of fixed personalities and their metapoetic status make them highly unusual members of the Olympian pantheon. As the embodiment of music and the means by which music is channelled to human beings they are essential to our understanding of the meaning of mousikē in Greek culture. Above all their origins in an oral society foregrounds the performative nature of music which has characterised it as an art form throughout the ages"--

Author : Laura Salah Nasrallah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100940573X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses written by Laura Salah Nasrallah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how Ancient Christians both used curses and criticized them in ancient Mediterranean religion and society.

Author : David Walter Leinweber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Role of Metamorphosis in Grego [i.e. Greco]-Roman Religious Thought written by David Walter Leinweber and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lauren Curtis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108831664
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds written by Lauren Curtis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines multiple theoretical perspectives and diverse media to examine the relation between music and memory in ancient Greece and Rome.

Author : Ingo Gildenhard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351538713
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transformative Change in Western Thought written by Ingo Gildenhard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume maps the shifting place and function of marvelous transformations from antiquity to the present day. Shape-shifting, taking animal bodies, miracles, transubstantiation, alchemy, and mutation recur and echo throughout ancient and modern writing and thinking and continue in science fiction today as tales of gene-splicing and hybridisation. The idea of metamorphosis lies in uneasy coexistence with orderly world views and it is often cast out, or attributed to enemies. Augustine and the church fathers consider shape-shifting ungodly; Enlightenment thinkers suppress alchemy as unscientific; genetically-modified wheat and stem-cell research are stigmatised as unnatural. Yet the very possibility of radical transformation inspires hope just as it frightens. A provocative, theorising, trans-historical history, this book ranges across classics, literature, history, philosophy, theology and anthropology. From Homer and Ovid to Proust and H. P. Lovecraft and through figures from Proteus to Kafka's Fly and toSpiderman, four historical surveys are combined with nine case studies to show the malleable, yet persistent, presence of transformation throughout Western cultural history.

Author : Warren D. Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801430305
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Musicians in Ancient Greece written by Warren D. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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.

Author : Edward A. Lippman
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Thought In Ancient Greece written by Edward A. Lippman and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1975-11-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francesco Pelosi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110883227X
Total Pages : 369 pages
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Download or read book Music and Philosophy in the Roman Empire written by Francesco Pelosi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the philosophical import and use of musical notions in crucial moments and authors of the Roman Imperial period.