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Dissonance : Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece / Sean Alexander Gurd.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Idiom: Inventing Writing TheoryPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823269655
  • 9780823269679
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Note on Sources and Citations -- Prologue -- Capo -- 1. Figures -- 2. Affect -- 3. Music -- Coda -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deeply into auditory experience. They charted its capacity to develop topologies distinct from those of the other senses; contemplated its use as a communicator of information; calculated its power to express and cause extreme emotion. They made sound too, artfully and self-consciously creating songs and poems that reveled in sonorousness. Dissonance reveals the commonalities between ancient Greek auditory art and the concerns of contemporary sound studies, avant-garde music, and aesthetics, making the argument that "classical" Greek song and drama were, in fact, an early European avant-garde, a proto-exploration of the aesthetics of noise. The book thus develops an alternative to that romantic ideal which sees antiquity as a frozen and silent world.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Note on Sources and Citations -- Prologue -- Capo -- 1. Figures -- 2. Affect -- 3. Music -- Coda -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deeply into auditory experience. They charted its capacity to develop topologies distinct from those of the other senses; contemplated its use as a communicator of information; calculated its power to express and cause extreme emotion. They made sound too, artfully and self-consciously creating songs and poems that reveled in sonorousness. Dissonance reveals the commonalities between ancient Greek auditory art and the concerns of contemporary sound studies, avant-garde music, and aesthetics, making the argument that "classical" Greek song and drama were, in fact, an early European avant-garde, a proto-exploration of the aesthetics of noise. The book thus develops an alternative to that romantic ideal which sees antiquity as a frozen and silent world.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)