Music in Roman Comedy

Informationen zum Autor Timothy J. Moore is John and Penelope Biggs Distinguished Professor of Classics at Washington University, St Louis. He is author of Artistry and Ideology: Livy's Vocabulary of Virtue (1989), The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience (1998), a translation of Terence's Phormio and numerous articles on Livy, Tibullus, Roman comedy, Petronius, ancient music and Japanese kyogen comedy. He has produced a website in which he sings songs of Plautus in their original rhythms (http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~timmoore/Recordings%20of%20Plautus/MoorePlautusRecordings.html). He has lectured widely in North America, Europe and China on topics including music archaeology, Western and Japanese comedy, Greek and Roman music, and analogies between Roman and American musical comedies. He also has extensive experience as a singer and as a performer in musical theatre. He has received fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the American Academy in Rome and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, and a Mellon Faculty Fellowship at Harvard University, Massachusetts. Klappentext This book offers a new explanation of how the plays of Plautus and Terence worked as musical theatre. Zusammenfassung This book explains the nature of Roman comedy's music and provides musical analyses of songs! scenes and whole plays. This book will be of interest to students of ancient theatre and Latin literature! scholars and students working on the history of music and theatre! and performers working with ancient plays. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Tibiae and tibicines; 2. Song; 3. Dance; 4. Melody and rhythm; 5. Meters; 6. Arrangement of verses and variation within the verse; 7. Musical structure; 8. Polymetry; 9. Pseudolus; 10. Adelphoe; Conclusion; Appendix I. The meters of Roman comedy; Appendix II. Characters and meters; Appendix III. Musical features by play; Appendix IV. Exceptions to the ABC pattern; Appendix V. Polymetric passages....

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• Authors: Professor Timothy J. (University of Texas Moore, Timothy J Moore, Timothy J. Moore, Timothy J. (University of Texas Moore, MOORE TIMOTHY J, Moore Timothy J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.04.2012
• EAN: 9781107006485
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00648-5
• No. of pages: 470
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights