Dissonance: Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece
(Part of the Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory Series)
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In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deeply into auditory experience. They charted its capacity to develop topologies distinct from those of the other senses; contemplated its use as a communicator of information; calculated its power to express and cause extreme emotion. They made sound too, artfully and self-consciously creating songs and poems that reveled in sonorousness. Dissonance...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0823269655
ISBN13:9780823269655
Release Date:July 2016
Publisher:Fordham University Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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