The music of tragedy : performance and imagination in Euripidean theater

Author(s)

• Weiss, Naomi A.

Bibliographic Information

The music of tragedy : performance and imagination in Euripidean theater

Naomi A. Weiss

（The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature）

University of California Press, c2018

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-266) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Naomi Weiss demonstrates that Euripides' allusions to music-making are not just metatheatrical flourishes or gestures towards musical and religious practices external to the drama but closely interwoven with the dramatic plot. Situating Euripides' experimentation with the dramaturgical effects of mousike within a broader cultural context, she shows how much of his novelty lies in his reinvention of traditional lyric styles and motifs for the tragic stage. If we wish to understand better the trajectories of this most important ancient art form, The Music of Tragedy argues, we must pay closer attention to the role played by both music and text.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Note on Editions and Translations Introduction: In Search of Tragedy's Music 1. Words, Music, and Dance in Archaic Lyric and Classical Tragedy Before Tragedy: Imaginative Suggestion in Archaic Choral Lyric Metamusical Play in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Early Euripides 2. Chorus, Character, and Plot in Electra Electra and the Chorus Performed Ecphrasis Choral Anticipation and Enactment 3. Musical Absence in Trojan Women The Paradox of Absent Choreia New Songs and Past Performances Performing the Fall of Troy 4. Protean Singers and the Shaping of Narrative in Helen Birdsong and Lament New Music Travel and Epiphany 5. From Choreia to Monody in Iphigenia in Aulis Spectatorship, Enactment, and Desire Past and Present Mousike Choreia and Monody Conclusion: Euripides' Musical Innovations Works Cited General Index Index Locorum

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Details

• NCID: BC12028559
• ISBN:
  • 9780520295902
• LCCN: 2017029449
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oakland, California
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 284 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PA3978
  • DC23 : 882/.01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Euripides -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Music, Greek and Roman -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA38708703