Pauline A.LeVen
Music and Metamorphosis in Graeco-Roman Thought
Music and Metamorphosis in Graeco-Roman Thought
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This book explores the aesthetic and ontological questions raised by mythical narratives of musical origins, focusing on the Greek and Roman cultures and their debates about music, song, and the soundscape. It examines the questions of where music comes from, what kind of agency a song has, and what is at the root of musical pleasure.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 289 pages
Publication date: 10 March 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Where does music come from? What kind of agency does a song have? What is at the root of musical pleasure? Can music die? These are some of the questions the Greeks and the Romans asked about music, song, and the soundscape within which they lived, and that this book examines. Focusing on mythical narratives of metamorphosis, it investigates the aesthetic and ontological questions raised by fantastic stories of musical origins. Each chapter opens with an ancient text devoted to a musical metamorphosis (of a girl into a bird, a nymph into an echo, men into cicadas, etc.) and reads that text as a meditation on an aesthetic and ontological question, in dialogue with contemporary debates – contemporary with debates in the Greco-Roman culture that gave rise to the story, and with modern debates in the posthumanities about what it means to be a human animal enmeshed in a musicking environment.
Where does music come from? What kind of agency does a song have? What is at the root of musical pleasure? Can music die? These are some of the questions the Greeks and the Romans asked about music, song, and the soundscape within which they lived, and that this book examines. Focusing on mythical narratives of metamorphosis, it investigates the aesthetic and ontological questions raised by fantastic stories of musical origins. Each chapter opens with an ancient text devoted to a musical metamorphosis (of a girl into a bird, a nymph into an echo, men into cicadas, etc.) and reads that text as a meditation on an aesthetic and ontological question, in dialogue with contemporary debates – contemporary with debates in the Greco-Roman culture that gave rise to the story, and with modern debates in the posthumanities about what it means to be a human animal enmeshed in a musicking environment.
Weight: 496g
Dimension: 151 x 229 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781316602638
Edition number: New ed
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