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Music and memory in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds

Title
Music and memory in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds / edited by Lauren Curtis and Naomi Weiss.
Publication
Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

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xvi, 363 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm
Summary
In Greek mythology, the Muses are Memory's daughters. Their genealogy suggests a deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, but how was this connection understood and experienced by ancient authors, artists, performers, and audiences? How is music remembered and how does it memorialize in a world before recording technology, where sound accumulated differently than it does today? This volume explores music's role in the discourses of cultural memory, communication, and commemoration in ancient Greek and Roman societies. It reveals the many and varied ways in which musical memory formed a fundamental part of social, cultural, ritual, and political life in ancient Greek- and Latin-speaking communities, from classical Athens to Ptolemaic Alexandria and ancient Rome. Drawing on the contributors' interdisciplinary expertise in art history, philology, performance studies, history, and ethnomusicology, eleven original chapters and the editors' Introduction offer new approaches for the study of Graeco-Roman music and musical culture.
Subject
  • To 1500
  • Music > Social aspects > History > Greece > To 1500
  • Music > Social aspects > History. > Rome
  • Memory > Social aspects > History > Greece > To 1500
  • Memory > Social aspects > History. > Rome
  • Music memorizing > Greece > History > To 1500
  • Music memorizing > Rome > History
  • Memory > Social aspects
  • Music memorizing
  • Music > Social aspects
  • Greece
  • Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-351) and indexes.
Call Number
JME 21-609
ISBN
  • 1108831664
  • 9781108831666
OCLC
1227268697
Title
Music and memory in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds / edited by Lauren Curtis and Naomi Weiss.
Publisher
Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-351) and indexes.
Chronological Term
To 1500
Other Form:
ebook version : 9781108934749
Research Call Number
JME 21-609
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