9781119275473-1119275474-A Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Music (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

A Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Music (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

ISBN-13: 9781119275473
ISBN-10: 1119275474
Edition: 1
Author: Tosca A. C. Lynch, Eleonora Rocconi
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: Hardcover 560 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781119275473
ISBN-10: 1119275474
Edition: 1
Author: Tosca A. C. Lynch, Eleonora Rocconi
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: Hardcover 560 pages

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A Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Music (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) (ISBN-13: 9781119275473 and ISBN-10: 1119275474), written by authors Tosca A. C. Lynch, Eleonora Rocconi, was published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2020. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other History & Criticism (Music) books. You can easily purchase or rent A Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Music (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used History & Criticism books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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"This chapter provides an overview of the Muses in Greek mythology and argues that their multiplicity, their indefinite number, their lack of fixed personalities and their metapoetic status make them highly unusual members of the Olympian pantheon. As the embodiment of music and the means by which music is channelled to human beings they are essential to our understanding of the meaning of mousikē in Greek culture. Above all their origins in an oral society foregrounds the performative nature of music which has characterised it as an art form throughout the ages"--

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