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9780199292400

The Dance of the Muses Choral Theory and Ancient Greek Poetics

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    9780199292400

  • ISBN10:

    019929240X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-11-23
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

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 theinterpretation 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 aboutthe 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.

Author Biography


A. P. David is Assistant Professor, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Right Comparison
1(21)
Choreia and the Musical Text
22(30)
The Voice of the Dancer: A New Theory of the Greek Accent
52(42)
The Form of the Hexameter: The Origins of Caesura and Diaeresis
94(44)
The `Choral Signifier': The Shaping of Homeric Speech
138(34)
Retrogression, Episode, and Anagogy: The Round Dance and Narrative Form
172(36)
The Genesis of Homeric Poetry (a Brief Synthesis): The `Intemporizing' Cataloguer
208(7)
The Lyric Orchestra
215(55)
References 270(7)
General Index 277(4)
Index Locorum 281

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