Music of Tragedy
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ancient art form
ancient poetry
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classic poetry
classical greek theater
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drama
dramatic plot
dramaturgical effects
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euripides
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meta theatrical flourishes
motifs
mousike
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music making
musical language
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religious practices
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traditional lyrics styles
tragic dramas and plays
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Product details
- ISBN 9780520401440
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 2024
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Naomi Weiss demonstrates that Euripides’ allusions to music-making are not just metatheatrical flourishes or gestures towards musical and religious practices external to the drama but closely interwoven with the dramatic plot. Situating Euripides’ experimentation with the dramaturgical effects of mousike within a broader cultural context, she shows how much of his novelty lies in his reinvention of traditional lyric styles and motifs for the tragic stage. If we wish to understand better the trajectories of this most important ancient art form, The Music of Tragedy argues, we must pay closer attention to the role played by both music and text.
Naomi A. Weiss is Assistant Professor of Classics at Harvard University. She has published widely on ancient Greek poetry and performance culture, especially tragedy.
