Dissonance : Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
ISBN-10
0823269655
ISBN-13
9780823269655
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Imprint
Fordham University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 1st, 2016
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
512 grams
Dimensions
16.10 x 24.10 x 2.70 cms
Ksh 8,650.00
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An overview and descriptions of the auditory commitments of ancient Greek song, drama, and acoustic theory from the time of Homer to the death of Euripides, this is the first complete study of the cultural system of sound in Greece.
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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