TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gurd,Sean Alexander
TI  - Dissonance: Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece 
T2  - Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
SN  - 9780823269655
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - Music
KW  - Philosophy & Theory
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Ancient Greece
KW  - Audition
KW  - acoustics
KW  - aesthetics
KW  - auditory culture
KW  - music
KW  - noise
KW  - sound
KW  - tragedy
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Note on Sources and Citations --; Prologue --; Capo --; 1. Figures --; 2. Affect --; 3. Music --; Coda --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823269679
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823269679
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823269679/original
ER  -