Singing Alexandria: Music Between Practice and Textual Transmission

by Lucia Prauscello

This volume investigates the transmission and ancient reception of ancient Greek texts with musical notation. It provides a reconstruction of the dynamics of reception orienting the re-use and re-shaping of musical and poetic tradition in the entertainment culture of the post-classical Greek world. The study makes full use of literary, papyrological and epigraphic evidence, and in particular includes a detailed philological analysis of surviving musical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004149856
• ISBN13: 9789004149854
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"