Performing Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performing Antiquity write by Samuel N. Dorf. This book was released on 2019. Performing Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890-1930 investigates collaborations between French and American scholars of Greek antiquity (archaeologists, philologists, classicists, and musicologists), and the performing artists (dancers, composers, choreographers and musicians) who brought their research to life at the birth of Modernism. The book tells the story of performances taking place at academic conferences, the Paris Op ra, ancient amphitheaters in Delphi, and private homes. These musical and dance collaborations are built on reciprocity: the performers gain new insight into their craft while learning new techniques or repertoire and the scholars gain an opportunity to bring theory into experimental practice, that is, they have a chance see/hear/experience what they have studied and imagined. The performers receive the imprimatur of scholarship, the stamp of authenticity, and validation for their creative activities. Drawing from methods and theory from musicology, dance studies, performance studies, queer studies, archaeology, classics and art history the book shows how new scholarly methods and technologies altered the performance, and, ultimately, the reception of music and dance of the past. Acknowledging and critically examining the complex relationships performers and scholars had with the pasts they studied does not undermine their work. Rather, understanding our own limits, biases, dreams, obsessions, desires, loves, and fears enriches the ways we perform the past.
The Study of Musical Performance in Antiquity
The Study of Musical Performance in Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Study of Musical Performance in Antiquity write by Agnès Garcia Ventura. This book was released on 2018-11-07. The Study of Musical Performance in Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of eleven essays provides the reader with some valuable insights into the richness of sources dealing with music and musical performance scattered over 3000 years and covering a wide range of geographies, from Syria to Iberia, through Greece and Rome. The volume, then, offers a series of examinations of literary data and materials from different areas of the Classical World and the Near East in ancient times and in late Antiquity, examined both synchronically and diachronically, in some cases in dialogue with one another. This broad treatment makes this collection of interest to historians, archaeologists, philologists and musicians, providing them with a multi-faceted volume which guides them towards a fuller understanding of ancient societies and which heightens the awareness of the importance of music as a transversal phenomenon.
Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare
Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare write by Dustin W. Dixon. This book was released on 2021-05-20. Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies reveal not only the complexities of mortals playing gods but also the nature of theatrical spectacle itself. The very impossibility of rendering the gods in all their divine splendor in a truly convincing way lies at the intersection of divine power and the power of the theater. This book pursues these dynamics on the stages of ancient Athens and Rome as well on those of Renaissance England to shed new light on theatrical performance. The authors reveal how gods appear onstage both to astound and to dramatize the very machinations by which theatrical performance operates. Offering an array of case studies featuring both canonical and lesser-studied texts, this volume discusses work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Plautus as well as Beaumont, Heywood, Jonson, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. This book uniquely brings together the joint perspectives of two experts on classical and Renaissance drama. This volume will appeal to students and enthusiasts of literature, classics, theater, and performance studies.
Demons and Dancers
Demons and Dancers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demons and Dancers write by Ruth Webb. This book was released on 2008. Demons and Dancers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Compared to the wealth of information available to us about classical tragedy and comedy, not much is known about the culture of pantomime, mime, and dance in late antiquity. Webb fills this gap in our knowledge and provides us with a detailed look at social life in the late antique period through an investigation of its performance culture.
Seduction and Power
Seduction and Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seduction and Power write by Silke Knippschild. This book was released on 2013-10-10. Seduction and Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on a conference held at the University of Bristol in September, 2010.
