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Samuel N. Dorf, Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890–1930

Samuel N. Dorf, <i>Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890–1930</i>

Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890–1930, by Samuel N. Dorf

Book Review| December 01 2020 Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890–1930, by Samuel N. Dorf Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890–1930, by Samuel N. Dorf. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xiv, 221 pp. Rachana Vajjhala Rachana Vajjhala RACHANA VAJJHALA is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Boston University. She is currently at work on her first book, which looks at belle époque ballet in relation to contemporaneous culture physique. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2020) 73 (3): 785–790. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2020.73.3.785 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Rachana Vajjhala; Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890–1930, by Samuel N. Dorf. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 December 2020; 73 (3): 785–790. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2020.73.3.785 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search In Donna Tartt's novel The Secret History, one of the characters defends the reenactment of an ancient bacchanal: It had to be approached on its own terms, not in a voyeuristic light or even a scholarly one. At the first, I suppose, it was impossible to see it any other way, looking at it as we did in fragments, through centuries. The vitality of the act was entirely obfuscated, the beauty, the terror, the sacrifice. … [W]e didn't believe. And belief was the one condition which was absolutely necessary. Belief, and absolute surrender.1 Like Tartt's cohort of young classicists, the scholars and performers who populate Samuel N. Dorf's Performing Antiquity follow an imperative to know ancient Greece experientially rather than intellectually. In some ways, eccentric figures such as Natalie Clifford Barney and Théodore Reinach might seem more at home in Tartt's novel than in a musicological study, though... You do not currently have access to this content.

Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890–1930 by Samuel N. Dorf

Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890–1930 by Samuel N. Dorf

Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890–1930 by Samuel N. Dorf

Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890–1930 by Samuel N. Dorf

New Voices in Ancient Music

Abstract This report provides a conspectus of the nine papers presented at ‘The Graduate Workshop in Ancient Greek and Roman Music’, held at the University of Oxford in June 2018. The workshop was organised with the intent of showcasing the innovative work of postgraduates in the field of ancient Greek and Roman music. Based around the themes of theory and practice, drama, and ritual, the papers reflect current areas of focus within the field and suggest promising avenues for further enquiry.

A Response to Laywine on Hagel, &lt;i&gt;Ancient Greek Music&lt;/i&gt;

A Response to Laywine on Hagel, &lt;i&gt;Ancient Greek Music&lt;/i&gt;

Philosophy and Science of Music in Ancient Greece

Although the writings of the classical Greeks and their Roman and Arabic successors remain the foundation of Western philosophy and science of music, as well as their sometimes problematic applications to architecture and other constructive arts, there has been a steady renewal of interest in the old science of harmonics. It is recognized that much of the Greek theory and practice of harmonics was unquestionably derived from earlier cultures, the still shadowy predecessors of Pythagoras. Though hardly any modern writers would describe themselves as Pythagoreans, some of their ideas have important connections with the old tradition and all are symptomatic of a new era in the history of thought, when mechanistic and reductionist paradigms are giving way to a holistic and organic world-view. Modern scholarship has established that most of the doctrines traditionally ascribed to Pythagoras were really the contributions of the older high civilisations, particularly of Mespotamia and Egypt. The rise and dissemination of these perennially influential doctrines remains one of the most formidable problems for the historian of ideas.

JOHN G. LANDELS, Music in Ancient Greece and Rome, London and New York, Routledge, 1999

JOHN G. LANDELS, Music in Ancient Greece and Rome, London and New York, Routledge, 1999

The Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1786 and the Relationship between Ancient Greek and Early Christian Music

The Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1786 and the Relationship between Ancient Greek and Early Christian Music

The Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1786 and the Relationship Between Ancient Greek and Early Christian Music

The Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1786 and the Relationship Between Ancient Greek and Early Christian Music