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The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato

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The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato

By: Sean Alexander Gurd

Listening is a social process. Even apparently trivial acts of listening are expert performances of acquired cognitive and bodily habits. Contemporary scholars acknowledge this fact with the notion that there are “auditory cultures.” In the fourth century BCE, Greek philosophers recognized a similar phenomenon in music, which they treated as a privileged site for the cultural manufacture of sensory capabilities, and proof that in a traditional culture perception could be ordered, regular, and reliable. This approachable and elegantly written book tells the story of how music became a vital topic for understanding the senses and their role in the creation of knowledge. Focussing in particular on discussions of music and sensation in Plato and Aristoxenus, Sean Gurd explores a crucial early chapter in the history of hearing and gently raises critical questions about how aesthetic traditionalism and sensory certainty can be joined together in a mutually reinforcing symbiosis.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350071994

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Literary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome

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Literary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome

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Work in Progress offers the first in-depth study of the cultural and social importance of literary revision among ancient Greek and Roman authors.

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0199837511

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Dissonance

Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece

By: Sean Alexander Gurd

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Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece

By: Sean Alexander Gurd

An overview and descriptions of the auditory commitments of ancient Greek song, drama, and acoustic theory from the time of Homer to the death of Euripides, this is the first complete study of the cultural system of sound in Greece.

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The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato

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Literary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome

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Work in Progress offers the first in-depth study of the cultural and social importance of literary revision among ancient Greek and Roman authors.

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Iphigenias at Aulis

Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology

By: Sean Alexander Gurd

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Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology

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How should a literary scholar approach a text characterized not by stability but by variation and flux? This book offers a radical new perspective on the limits—and the accomplishments—of the modern traditions of textual criticism in classics.Sean Alexander Gurd takes as his starting point the case of a single Greek tragedy by Euripides, one of his last. According to ancient accounts, the Iphigenia at Aulis was produced at the city Dionysia, the great festival of Athenian tragedy, sometime after Euripides died (between 407 and 405 BCE). Whether the text performed then was entirely the work of Euripides, and whether the version that appears in the manuscripts reflects either that performance or its defunct author's design, are unknown. But since the mid-eighteenth-century the mysteries and conflicting evidence concerning Iphigenia at Aulis have given rise to an array of different attempts to reconstruct the original, and every generation has seen a version of the play that is radically different from those that came before. Gurd pioneers a literary philology comfortable with this textual multiplicity, capable of reading Iphigenias at Aulis in the plural.Regarding the dossier of successive editions of Iphigenia at Aulis as a symbol for the condition of modern textual reason, Gurd shows lovers of classical literature exactly how contingent the texts they read really are.

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Cornell University Press

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1501725386

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Dissonance

Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece

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Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece

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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.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823269663

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Iphigenias at Aulis

Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology

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Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology

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The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato

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