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Billings, Joshua - Choruses, Ancient and Modern
Catalogue No: 9780199670574
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The ancient singing and dancing chorus has exerted a powerful influence in the modern world. This is the first book to look systematically at the points of similarity and difference between ancient and modern choruses, across time and place, in their ancient contexts in modern theatre, opera, dance, musical theatre, and in political debate.
List of Illustrations
Note on Nomenclature, spelling and texts
Introduction: Choral Fantasies
Scholarship
1 Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi: Theorising the Chorus in Greece
2 Simon Goldhill: The Greek Chorus: Our German Eyes
3 Constanze Guthenke: The Middle Voice: German Classical Scholarship and the Greek Tragic Chorus
4 Ian Rutherford: Chorus, Song, and Anthropology
Aesthetics
5 Felix Budelmann: Greek Festival Choruses in and out of Context
6 Helen Slaney: Seneca's Chorus of One
7 Roger Savage: Something like the Choruses of the Ancients: the Coro Stabile and the Chorus in European Opera, 1598-1782
8 Joshua Billings: An Alien Body? Choral Autonomy around 1800
9 Martin Revermann: Brechtian Chorality
Shadows
10 Sheila Murnaghan: The Nostalgia of the Male Tragic Chorus
11 Christian Biet: A Senecan Theatre of Cruelty: Audience, Citizens, and Chorus in Late-Sixteenth and Early-Seventeenth-Century French Dramas
12 Cecile Dudouyt: Phantom Chorus: Missing Chorality on the French Eighteenth-Century Stage
13 Laurence Dreyfus: Sunk in the Mystic Abyss: The Choral Orchestra in Wagner's Music Dramas
14 Zachary Dunbar: How do you solve a problem like the chorus? Hammerstein s Allegro and the Reception of the Greek Chorus on Broadway
Company
15 Richard Seaford: The Politics of the Mystic Chorus
16 Edith Hall: Mob, Cabal, or Utopian Commune? The Political Contestation of the Ancient Chorus 1789-1917
17 Fiona Macintosh: Choruses, Community, and the Corps de Ballet
18 Eleftheria Ioannidou: Chorus and the Vaterland: Greek Tragedy and the Ideology of Choral Performance in Inter-War Germany
19 Erika Fischer-Lichte: Revivals of Choric Theatre as Utopian Visions
20 Helen Eastman: Chorus in Contemporary British Theatre
Bibliography
Index
CONTENTS
List of ContributorsList of Illustrations
Note on Nomenclature, spelling and texts
Introduction: Choral Fantasies
Scholarship
1 Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi: Theorising the Chorus in Greece
2 Simon Goldhill: The Greek Chorus: Our German Eyes
3 Constanze Guthenke: The Middle Voice: German Classical Scholarship and the Greek Tragic Chorus
4 Ian Rutherford: Chorus, Song, and Anthropology
Aesthetics
5 Felix Budelmann: Greek Festival Choruses in and out of Context
6 Helen Slaney: Seneca's Chorus of One
7 Roger Savage: Something like the Choruses of the Ancients: the Coro Stabile and the Chorus in European Opera, 1598-1782
8 Joshua Billings: An Alien Body? Choral Autonomy around 1800
9 Martin Revermann: Brechtian Chorality
Shadows
10 Sheila Murnaghan: The Nostalgia of the Male Tragic Chorus
11 Christian Biet: A Senecan Theatre of Cruelty: Audience, Citizens, and Chorus in Late-Sixteenth and Early-Seventeenth-Century French Dramas
12 Cecile Dudouyt: Phantom Chorus: Missing Chorality on the French Eighteenth-Century Stage
13 Laurence Dreyfus: Sunk in the Mystic Abyss: The Choral Orchestra in Wagner's Music Dramas
14 Zachary Dunbar: How do you solve a problem like the chorus? Hammerstein s Allegro and the Reception of the Greek Chorus on Broadway
Company
15 Richard Seaford: The Politics of the Mystic Chorus
16 Edith Hall: Mob, Cabal, or Utopian Commune? The Political Contestation of the Ancient Chorus 1789-1917
17 Fiona Macintosh: Choruses, Community, and the Corps de Ballet
18 Eleftheria Ioannidou: Chorus and the Vaterland: Greek Tragedy and the Ideology of Choral Performance in Inter-War Germany
19 Erika Fischer-Lichte: Revivals of Choric Theatre as Utopian Visions
20 Helen Eastman: Chorus in Contemporary British Theatre
Bibliography
Index
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