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Paperback. Condizione: New. Where does music come from? What kind of agency does a song have? What is at the root of musical pleasure? Can music die? These are some of the questions the Greeks and the Romans asked about music, song, and the soundscape within which they lived, and that this book examines. Focusing on mythical narratives of metamorphosis, it investigates the aesthetic and ontological questions raised by fantastic stories of musical origins. Each chapter opens with an ancient text devoted to a musical metamorphosis (of a girl into a bird, a nymph into an echo, men into cicadas, etc.) and reads that text as a meditation on an aesthetic and ontological question, in dialogue with 'contemporary' debates - contemporary with debates in the Greco-Roman culture that gave rise to the story, and with modern debates in the posthumanities about what it means to be a human animal enmeshed in a musicking environment.…

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Condizione: New. This book examines Greek songs composed between 440 and 323 BC and argues for the vividness and diversity of lyric culture. Num Pages: 387 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: DC; DSBB; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170. . . 2017. Reprint. paperback. . . . . …

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Condizione: New. This book examines Greek songs composed between 440 and 323 BC and argues for the vividness and diversity of lyric culture. Num Pages: 387 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: DC; DSBB; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170. . . 2017. Reprint. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. A CULTURAL HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC IN ANTIQUITY A Cultural History of Western Music in Antiquity covers the period from 850 BCE to 500 CE, a time when multiple musics grew and spread in a glorious polyphony of styles. Music became the beneficiary of a wide variety of practices, from large-scale public patronage to sophisticated theorization, from the design of new instruments to the medical enhancement of the voice, from the invention of new scales and rhythms to the creation of a remarkably precise notation system. Though much of this polymetric and microtonal music was later lost, the innovations of the ancient Greeks and Romans established new ways of conceiving and practicing music.The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Western Music presents the first comprehensive history from classical antiquity to today, covering all forms and aspects of music and its ever-changing social context. The themes covered in each volume are society; philosophies; politics; exchange; education; popular culture; performance; and technologies.The Cultural Histories SeriesA Cultural History of Western Music is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available as hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via . Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via . The first comprehensive history of western music in antiquity. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condizione: New. Examines aesthetic and ontological questions raised by Greco-Roman myths of human metamorphosis into non-human musical beings. Placing the myths within their ancient intellectual contexts, it reads them in dialogue with contemporary questions about what it .