Music and image in classical Athens / Sheramy D. Bundrick.

Author/creator Bundrick, Sheramy D.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Descriptionxvi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Subjects
Music, Greek and Roman--History and criticism.
Vases, Ancient--Greece. --Athens.
Music in art.
Athens (Greece)--Intellectual life.

Contents Music and image in fifth-century Athens. Sixth-century music and musical imagery ; The new democracy, "new music," and new musical imagery -- Representing musical instruments. Stringed instruments. The chelys lyre ; The kithara ; The barbitos ; The phorminx ; The Thracian kithara ; The harp -- Wind instruments. The aulos ; The syrinx ; The salpinx -- Percussion instruments -- Mousike: the art of the muses. Becoming an Aner Mousikos ; The lessons of Linos ; Mousike and Gymnastike ; Amateurs and professionals: Mousike at the Symposion ; Women and mousike -- Ethos and the character of musical imagery. Music on the edge: Dionysos and his world ; Ethos and pathos in the imagery of Orpheus ; Thamyris: Music and hubris ; Marsyas, the musical satyr -- Harmonia and the life of the city. The Harmonia of Apollo Kitharoidos ; Music and cult ritual ; Contest and victory ; Music and the theater ; Harmonia and the wedding ; Harmonia as personification -- Musical revolutions in classical Athens.
Abstract During the fifth century B.C., Athens witnessed the explosion of images depicting musical performance, such as Apollo and the Muses, frisky satyrs, the poet Orpheus, youths at school, brides at weddings, and the dead at tombs. Primarily found in vase paintings, but also in sculpture and now-lost wall paintings, these images provide significant insight into the musical culture of the time and place, especially given that so much of the literary evidence for musical culture in Athens has been lost. This study proposes that the depictions of musical performance were intimately linked to contemporary developments in the field of music itself, such as the debate over music in education, theories of musical ethos, and the growing popularity of professional musicians. Moreover, the author argues that music became a visual metaphor for the harmony--or disharmony--of the city. Her book is the first to consider the broad range of musical images in the dynamic Classical period, as well as their sociocultural and artistic implications.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and index.
LCCN 2005002859
ISBN0521848067 (hardback)
ISBN9780521848060

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Music Music Stacks ML169 .B96 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold