The Dance of the Muses: Choral Theory and Ancient Greek Poetics [Hardcover]

A. P. David (Author)

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Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (Sep 28 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 019929240X
ISBN-13: 978-0199292400
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm
Shipping Weight: 499 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,921,529 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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

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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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