Music and Image in Classical AthensSheramy Bundrick proposes that the depictions of musical performance in fifth century BC Athens 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, she 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. |
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Contents
MUSIC AND IMAGE IN FIFTHCENTURY ATHENS | 1 |
SixthCentury Music an Musical Imagery | 7 |
The New Democracy New Music and New Musical | 9 |
REPRESENTING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS | 13 |
Stringed Instruments | 14 |
The Kithara | 18 |
The Barbitos | 21 |
The Phorminx | 25 |
Women and Mousike | 92 |
ETHOS AND THE CHARACTER OF MUSICAL IMAGERY | 103 |
Dionysos and His World | 106 |
Ethos and Pathos in the Imagery of Orpheus | 116 |
Music and Hubris | 126 |
Marsyas the Musical Satyr | 131 |
HARMONIA AND THE LIFE OF THE CITY | 140 |
The Harmonia of Apollo Kitharoidos | 142 |
The Thracian Kithara | 26 |
The Harp | 30 |
Wind Instruments | 34 |
The Syrinx | 42 |
Percussion Instruments | 46 |
MOUSIKE THE ART OF THE MUSES | 49 |
The Art of the Muses | 51 |
Becoming an Aner Mousikos | 60 |
The Lessons of Linos | 71 |
Mouskie and Gymnastike | 74 |
Mousike at the Symposion | 80 |
Music and Cult Ritual | 150 |
Contest and Victory | 160 |
Music and the Theatre | 175 |
Harmonia and the Wedding | 179 |
Harmonia as Personification | 193 |
MUSICAL REVOLUTIONS IN CLASSICAL ATHENS | 197 |
Notes | 203 |
Glossary | 239 |
| 241 | |
| 253 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Music and Image in Classical Athens |
| Author | Sheramy Bundrick |
| Edition | illustrated, annotated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0521848067, 9780521848060 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / History / Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical Music / History & Criticism |
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