Music and the Muses : the culture of "mousikē" in the classical Athenian city

edited by Penelope Murray and Peter Wilson

What was the role of mousike, the realm of the Muses, in Greek life? More wide-ranging in its implications than the English 'music', mousike lay at the heart of Greek culture, and was often indeed synonymous with culture. In its commonest form, it represented for the Greeks a seamless complex of music, poetic word, and physical movement, encompassing a vast array of performances - from small-scale entertainment in the private home to elaborate performances involving the entire community. Yet the history of the field, particularly in anglophone scholarship, has been hitherto narrowly conceived, and the broader cultural significance of mousike largely ignored. Focusing mainly on classical Athens these new and specially commissioned essays analyse the theory and practice of musical performance in a variety of social contexts and demonstrate the centrality of mousike to the values and ideology of the polis. The so-called 'new musical revolution' in late fifth-century Athens receives serious treatment in this volume for the first time. A major theme of the book is the musical and mousike dimension of Greek religion, rarely analysed in its own right. The ethical and philosophical aspects of Athenian mousike are another central concern, with the figure of the dancing philosopher as an emblem of music's role in intellectual life. The book as a whole provides an integrated cultural analysis of central aspects of Greek mousike, which will be of interest to classical scholars, to cultural historians, and to anyone concerned with understanding the power of music as a cultural phenomenon.

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[目次]

  • Introduction
  • PART I: MOUSIKE AND RELIGION
  • 1. Muses and Mysteries
  • 2. Changing choral worlds: song-dance and society in Athens and beyond
  • 3. Song-dance and state-pilgrimage at Athens
  • 4. Dancing the pyrrhikhe
  • PART II: MOUSIKE ON STAGE
  • 5. Choral prayer in Greek tragedy: euphemia or aischrologia?
  • 6. Choral forms in Aristophanic comedy: musical mimesis and dramatic performance in classical Athens
  • 7. Transforming the nightingale: aspects of Athenian musical discourse in the late fifth century
  • PART III: THE POLITICS OF MOUSIKE
  • 8. The Politics of the New Music
  • 9. Damon of Oa: a music theorist ostracized
  • 10. Athenian strings
  • PART IV: MOUSIKE AND PAIDEIA
  • 11. catharsis: the power of music in Aristotle's Politics
  • 12. Dirty dancing: Xenophon's Symposium
  • 13. The Muses and their arts

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書名 Music and the Muses : the culture of "mousikē" in the classical Athenian city
著作者等 Murray, Penelope
Wilson, Peter
Wilson Peter Lamborn
出版元 Oxford University Press
刊行年月 2004
ページ数 xiii, 438 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 0199242399
NCID BA67758829
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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