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The Music of Tragedy

Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater
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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.

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Naomi Weiss is Assistant Professor of Classics at Harvard University. She has published articles on tragedy, Pindar, and ancient Greek musical culture, and is coeditor of a volume on the genres of archaic and classical Greek lyric.
Release date Australia
December 15th, 2017
Pages
304
Audience
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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3 b-w images
Dimensions
152x229x28
ISBN-13
9780520295902
Product ID
26768129

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