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Singing Ancient Greek: A Guide to Musical Reconstruction and Performance, eScholarship, University of California, 2014, 281 pp. Downloadable for free (http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1rj4j3n1)How was ancient Greek poetry sung in practice? The music of song that emerges from the tiny remnants of notated documents represents only the visible tip of the proverbial iceberg. The likely contours, if not the precise details, of the submerged bulk can potentially be traced by combining metrical knowledge of poetic texts, evidence of melodic structures as expounded in technical and theoretical sources, and reasonable reconstructions of instrumental resources such as lyres, kitharas, and auloi. Given the ubiquity of music in the ancient Greek world, and the evident potential for it to affect the impact of songs that today survive almost entirely as words without music, bringing together such disparate sources of evidence to create practical realisations of sung music has long presented a goal and a challenge to musicologists, musically-minded classicists, and enthusiasts of ancient Greek culture.Douglas Leedy has risen to the challenge in this bold and valuable handbook, which deserves to be widely read, pondered, and used as intended to guide practice in the performing of ancient texts. The text is presented as a typescript for
Greek and Roman Musical Studies – Brill
Published: Feb 23, 2017
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