Dorf, Samuel N. - Performing Antiquity

Performing Antiquity tells the captivating story about some of the most intriguing Belle Epoque personalities -archaeologists, philologists, classicists, and musicologists - and the dancers, composers, choreographers and musicians who brought their research to life at the birth of Modernism.

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CONTENTS

Epigraph
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Music Examples
Chapter 1. Introduction: Musicology, Archaeology, Performance
Chapter 2. Gabriel Faure and Theodore Reinach: Hidden Pianos and L'Hymne a Apollon
Chapter 3. Performing Sappho's Fractured Archive, or Listening for the Queer Sounds in the Life and Works of Natalie Clifford Barney
Chapter 4. Performing Scholarship for the Paris Opera: Maurice Emmanuel's Salamine (1929)
Chapter 5. To Give Greece Back to the Greeks: Archeology, Ethnography and Eva Palmer Sikelianos' Prometheus Bound
Chapter 6. Scholars and Their Objects of Study
or, Loving Your Subject
Notes
Bibliography
Index