Dorf, Samuel N. - Performing Antiquity
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Dorf, Samuel N. - Performing Antiquity

Catalogue No: 9780197766576
Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890-1930

Product FormatBook
AuthorDorf, Samuel N.
£32.99
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Pages240
Publication Date17 January 2024
ISBN9780197766576 (0197766579)
EAN9780197766576

    Tells the captivating story of the most intriguing Belle Epoque personalities in a readable way
  • Applies these findings to our own time
  • An important contribution to music historiography

Performing Antiquity tells the captivating story 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.

Contents

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