{"title":"Melanippidis Melii testimonia et fragmenta, written by Ercoles, M.","authors":"Marco Recchia","doi":"10.1163/22129758-bja10070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22129758-bja10070","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36585,"journal":{"name":"Greek and Roman Musical Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135485550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Music across Borders in the Ancient Mediterranean World","authors":"Giovanna Casali, Alessia Zangrando","doi":"10.1163/22129758-bja10069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22129758-bja10069","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This report provides a conspectus of the round table organised by MOISA for the 21st IMS Quinquennial Congress (IMS 2022). In line with the theme of the congress, namely Music across Borders, the round table focused on the concept of ‘musical mobility’ in the Ancient Mediterranean World, starting from the assumption that the musical identity of the ancient Mediterranean peoples was significantly determined by the mobility of music, concerning dance as well as musicians and musical instruments. The papers presented touched on these different fields, showing how musicology needs to continue a dialogue with new methodologies and approaches of investigation to study and interpret ancient music, including an anthropological perspective.","PeriodicalId":36585,"journal":{"name":"Greek and Roman Musical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49513905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Music in Ancient Greece: Melody, Rhythm and Life, written by Klavan, S.A.","authors":"Rebecca Sears","doi":"10.1163/22129758-bja10068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22129758-bja10068","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36585,"journal":{"name":"Greek and Roman Musical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45300128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sulla sua passione per l’ascolto (Περὶ τῆς αὐτοῦ φιληκοΐας): l’orazione 19 di Dione di Prusa","authors":"G. Bernardi","doi":"10.1163/22129758-bja10065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22129758-bja10065","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000A short text by Dio of Prusa is analyzed, regarding the orator’s personal judgment on kitharōidia and the relationship it has with sophistic art and tragic literature as means of cultural dissemination. The article aims to propose a plausible interpretation of the text, on the one hand by examining the (few) data provided by critical studies, and on the other, especially, by making use of the author’s main research work, carried out by collecting all the passages of musical interest and ‘sound events’ contained in Dio’s speeches.","PeriodicalId":36585,"journal":{"name":"Greek and Roman Musical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45360602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La notation musicale dans le papyrus P. CtYBR inv. 4510 : relecture et nouvelles interprétations","authors":"L. Capron","doi":"10.1163/22129758-12341391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22129758-12341391","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000After a new reading of P.CtYBR inv. 4510, combined with a musical analysis, it is possible to detect the presence of three musical pieces, written respectively in diatonic scales of hypo-iastian, iastian and hyper-iastian. These three melodies are notably different in their composition. The first one shows a large variety of rhythmical figures, uses chromatic degrees and metaboles, when the two others seem to be written in a soberer way. In particular, the hypothesis of a new scale, created by the componer for this first piece only, is proposed here.","PeriodicalId":36585,"journal":{"name":"Greek and Roman Musical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46701015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Things That Sing: The Liveliness of Vessels in Early Greek Art and Poetry","authors":"D. Steiner","doi":"10.1163/22129758-bja10064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22129758-bja10064","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000At the outset of Olympian 7, Pindar figures the ode currently being performed to the phorminx and pipes as an all-gold phiale ‘plashing within with the dew of the vine’ (1–12); elsewhere, the poetic voice addresses his chorodidaskalos as a ‘sweet kratēr of loudly-sounding songs’ (Ol. 6.91). This paper proposes that we take these equations between songs and cups, bowls, and containers more generally at the most literal level: as my discussion of protome cauldrons, kraters, and kylikes demonstrates, early Greek artists and craftsmen created a series of manufactured goods that through their materiality, their functions, modes of deployment, and their iconography invited viewers and users to perceive them as artefacts endowed with music- and song-making powers largely independent of human agency. Using the insights of New Materialism and Posthumanism, my close scrutiny of the three types of vessels, together with texts describing these, permits us to discern their musical emissions, vocal and instrumental both, and alerts us to the ways in which music was conceived while even prompting us to recreate something of its lost sonorities.","PeriodicalId":36585,"journal":{"name":"Greek and Roman Musical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44504888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Choreonarratives. Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond, edited by Gianvittorio-Ungar, L., and Schlapbach, K.","authors":"Zoa Alonso Fernández","doi":"10.1163/22129758-bja10067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22129758-bja10067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36585,"journal":{"name":"Greek and Roman Musical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43506195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mouthpiece of the Aulos Revisited","authors":"Kamila Wysłucha, Stefan Hagel","doi":"10.1163/22129758-bja10062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22129758-bja10062","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The precise nature of the aulos mouthpiece, especially in the Classical period and before, has been disputed: above all, was it a single or a double reed? A definitive answer to this question has the greatest consequences for the nature of aulos music regarding not only timbre but more importantly control of dynamics, phrasing, and microtonal adjustments. From a survey of iconographical, literary and archaeological evidence, it is argued that the instruments of higher cultural esteem were universally equipped with double reeds. Single reeds were known as well, but are almost completely eclipsed in our sources.","PeriodicalId":36585,"journal":{"name":"Greek and Roman Musical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47790817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Musical Evidence for Low Boundary Tones in Ancient Greek","authors":"Dieter Gunkel","doi":"10.1163/22129758-bja10063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22129758-bja10063","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Several scholars have suggested that in ancient Greek there was a low boundary tone at the end of a relatively small prosodic constituent such as a clitic group or maximal prosodic word. The boundary tone may phonologically motivate some puzzling pitch-accentual phenomena in the language. One is the diachronic pitch-peak retraction that led to the circumflex pitch accent (HL) on penultimate syllables (the “sōtêra rule”). Another is the intonational phrase-internal downstepping or deletion of a word-final acute accent (H); that conversion of an acute to a grave accent is known as “lulling” or “koímēsis”. If such a low boundary tone existed, its effects should still be audible in ancient Greek non-strophic vocal music, where there is a significant correlation between the pitch movement of the text and the movement of the melody to which it is set, i.e. between tone and tune. Specifically, proponents of such a low boundary tone would predict that the turning point between falling and rising melody, the “musical trough”, should center around the word-final mora or syllable. The present study provides the first full description of troughs in the Delphic Hymns and finds that they are indeed closely aligned with word-end. Furthermore, once other factors that could lead to word-final troughs are set aside, i.e. once potential confounds are controlled for, the association of the trough with word-end remains strong, suggesting that we should in fact reconstruct the low boundary tone.","PeriodicalId":36585,"journal":{"name":"Greek and Roman Musical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48028324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Eleonora Rocconi","doi":"10.1163/22129758-12341390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22129758-12341390","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36585,"journal":{"name":"Greek and Roman Musical Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45663994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}