Singing Alexandria : music between practice and textual transmission / by L. Prauscello.
| Author/creator | Prauscello, L. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006. |
| Description | xiv, 241 pages : facsimiles ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 274, 0169-8958 ; Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 274. ^A492133 |
| Contents | Alexandrian editing technique and texts with musical notation looking for ancient evidence. Verbal metrics and musical rhythm some observations on Dion Hal de comp verb 11 22-3 Auj-Leb ; Apollonius ; Visualizing the music functional analogy or graphical plagiarism? Aristophanes' lesson according to pseudo-arcadius with a minor appendix on the Pindaric scholia to Ol 2 48c and f ( = 1.73 Drachm.) ; Sending a song: what texts cannot convey. Some observations on the scholium to Pind. Pyth. 2 6b (= 2. 33 Drachm.) ; Contextualizing a misunderstanding: some historical considerations on the scholium to Dion. Thr. Ars gramm. 2 = Bekker, AG II, 751 ll. 30-2 ; Cic. Orator, 183-4: the disguises of songs ; Metrical colon and instrumental cola in Arist. Quint. pp. 31. 18-32. 4 W-I: making sense of a difference ; The Lyrcurgan Staatsexemplar: real and mental paths from Athens to Alexandria ; Looking for an alternative. A first synthesis. What alternative? The 'paths' of songs between persistence and innovation ; What alternative? The 'paths' of texts -- Papyrus evidence: musical practice and textual transmission. P.Vind. G 2315: the material evidence ; P.Vind. G 2315: the visual formatting. Something to do with Alexandrian colometry? ; P.Vind. G 2315: reading signs. Lookin for a performance explanation of [...] ; P.Vind. G 2315 ll. 5-6 and the scholium to Eur. Or. 340 ; P.Vind G 2315. Textual and/or performative variants: some considerations ; P.Leid inv. 510: the limits of the tradition ; P.Leid. inv. 510: the material evidence ; P.Leid. inv. 510: layout and variants. Which tradition? ; P.Leid. inv. 510: which kind of performance? ; Some concluding remarks -- The 'other' paths of the song: musical mimicry 'without music' in Theocritus' Idyll 29 ; The Lesbian models: series of gl2d and gl2c and strophic structure ; The Lesbian models: syntactic structure and distichic articulation in odes composed of series of gl2d and gl2c ; Aeolic pentameters and greater asclepiads: looking for a tradition ; Theocritus' Idyll 29 between past and present: letting words sound their 'music.' |
| Abstract | This volume investigates the transmission and ancient reception of ancient Greek texts with musical notation. It provides a reconstruction of the dynamics of reception orienting the re-use and re-shaping of musical and poetic tradition in the entertainment culture of the post-classical Greek world. The study makes full use of literary, papyrological and epigraphic evidence, and in particular includes a detailed philological analysis of surviving musical papyri and of their relationship to the editorial activity of Alexandrian scholarship. The study helps to relocate musical documents in the world of their production and reception. |
| General note | Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Scuola normale superiore, Pisa, 2003. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-230) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2006274982 |
| ISBN | 9004149856 (hd.bd.) |
| ISBN | 9789004149854 (hd.bd.) |
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