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Dissonance: Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece
Sean Alexander Gurd
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Description for Dissonance: Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece
Hardback. 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. Series: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 241 x 27. Weight in Grams: 512.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823269655
SKU
V9780823269655
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About Sean Alexander Gurd
Sean Alexander Gurd is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is the author of Iphigenias at Aulis: Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology and Work in Progress: Literary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome.
Reviews for Dissonance: Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece
"Dissonance is an impressive achievement. Gurd is clearly highly conversant with the entirety of the ancient Greek literary tradition."
-John T. Hamilton Harvard University
-John T. Hamilton Harvard University