Singing Alexandria - Music Between Practice and Textual Transmission

This book provides a thorough and challenging analysis of the self-defining identities of texts set to music in the ancient Greek world, redefining our knowledge of the transmission of ancient Greek music.

About the author

Lucia Prauscello, Ph.D. (2003) in Classics at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, is presently the holder of The Momigliano Fellowship in the Arts in the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London.

Product details

• Authors: Lucia Prauscello
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2006
• EAN: 9789004149854
• ISBN: 978-90-04-14985-4
• No. of pages: 276
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 242 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 617 g
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity