Singing Alexandria: Music Between Practice and Textual Transmission (Mnemosyne, Supplements) (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)

This Volume Investigates The Transmission And Ancient Reception Of Ancient Greek Texts With Musical Notation. It Provides A Reconstruction Of The Dynamics Of Reception Orienting The Re-use And Re-shaping Of Musical And Poetic Tradition In The Entertainment Culture Of The Post-classical Greek World. The Study Makes Full Use Of Literary, Papyrological And Epigraphic Evidence, And In Particular Includes A Detailed Philological Analysis Of Surviving Musical Papyri And Of Their Relationship To The Editorial Activity Of Alexandrian Scholarship. The Study Helps To Relocate Musical Documents In The World Of Their Production And Reception.--book Jacket. Ch. 1. Alexandrian Editing Technique And Texts With Musical Notation : Looking For Ancient Evidence -- Ch. 2. Papyrus Evidence : Musical Practice And Textual Transmission -- Ch. 3. 'other' Paths Of The Song : Musical Mimicry 'without Music' In Theocritus' Idyll 29. By L. Prauscello. Includes Bibliography (p. [215]-230) And Indexes. CONTENTS......Page 8 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS......Page 10 PREFACE......Page 14 LIST OF PLATES......Page 16 INTRODUCTION......Page 20 I. Alexandrian editing technique and texts with musical notation: looking for ancient evidence......Page 26 I.1 Verbal metrics and musical rhythm: some observations on Dion. Hal. De comp. verb. 11. 22–3 Auj.-Leb.......Page 29 I.2 Apollonius [Greek]......Page 47 I.3 Visualizing the music: functional analogy or graphical plagiarism? Aristophanes’ lesson according to Pseudo-Arcadius (with a minor appendix on the Pindaric scholia to Ol. 2. 48c and f [= 1. 73 Drachm.])......Page 52 I.4 Sending a song: what texts cannot convey. Some observations on the scholium to Pind. Pyth. 2. 6b (= 2. 33 Drachm.)......Page 59 I.5 Contextualizing a misunderstanding: some historical considerations on the scholium to Dion. Thr. Ars gramm. 2 = Bekker, AG II, 751 ll. 30–2......Page 70 I.6 Cic. Orator, 183–4: the disguises of songs......Page 78 I.7 Metrical colon and instrumental cola in Arist. Quint. pp. 31. 18–32.4 W-I: making sense of a difference......Page 82 I.8 The Lycurgan Staatsexemplar: real and mental paths from Athens to Alexandria......Page 87 I.9 Looking for an alternative. A first synthesis......Page 97 I.9.1 What alternative? The ‘paths’ of songs between persistence and innovation......Page 102 I.9.2 What alternative? The ‘paths’ of texts......Page 135 II. Papyrus evidence: musical practice and textual transmission......Page 142 II.1 P.Vind. G 2315: the material evidence......Page 144 II.1.1 P.Vind. G 2315: the visual formatting. Something to do with Alexandrian colometry?......Page 146 II.1.2 P.Vind. G 2315: reading signs. Looking for a performative explanation of ◊ and ○●◙......Page 157 II.1.3 P.Vind. G 2315 ll. 5–6 and the scholium to Eur. Or. 340......Page 162 II.1.4 P.Vind. G 2315. Textual and/or performative variants: some considerations......Page 173 II.2 P.Leid. inv. 510: the limits of the tradition......Page 179 II.2.1 P.Leid. inv. 510: the material evidence......Page 180 II.2.2 P.Leid. inv. 510: layout and variants. Which tradition?......Page 185 II.2.3 P.Leid. inv. 510: which kind of performance?......Page 197 II.3 Some concluding remarks......Page 201 III. The ‘other’ paths of the song: musical mimicry ‘without music’ in Theocritus’ Idyll 29......Page 204 III.1 The Lesbian models of Idylls 28–30......Page 207 III.1.1 The Lesbian models: series of gl2d and gl2c and strophic structure......Page 208 III.1.2 The Lesbian models: syntactic structure and distichic articulation in odes composed of series of gl 2d and gl 2c......Page 215 III.2 Aeolic pentameters and greater asclepiads: looking for a tradition......Page 221 III.3 Theocritus’ Idyll 29 between past and present: letting words sound their ‘music’......Page 225 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 234 INDEX OF ANCIENT PASSAGES CITED......Page 250 GENERAL INDEX......Page 259 ISBN-13: 9789004149854 CONTENTS 8 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 10 PREFACE 14 LIST OF PLATES 16 INTRODUCTION 20 CHAPTER 1 26 ALEXANDRIAN SCHOLARSHIP AND TEXTS WITH MUSICAL NOTATION 26 I. Alexandrian editing technique and texts with musical notation: looking for ancient evidence 26 I.1 Verbal metrics and musical rhythm: some observations on Dion. Hal. De comp. verb. 11. 22–3 Auj.-Leb. 29 I.2 Apollonius [Greek] 47 I.3 Visualizing the music: functional analogy or graphical plagiarism? Aristophanes’ lesson according to Pseudo-Arcadius (with a minor appendix on the Pindaric scholia to Ol. 2. 48c and f [= 1. 73 Drachm.]) 52 I.4 Sending a song: what texts cannot convey. Some observations on the scholium to Pind. Pyth. 2. 6b (= 2. 33 Drachm.) 59 I.5 Contextualizing a misunderstanding: some historical considerations on the scholium to Dion. Thr. Ars gramm. 2 = Bekker, AG II, 751 ll. 30–2 70 I.6 Cic. Orator, 183–4: the disguises of songs 78 I.7 Metrical colon and instrumental cola in Arist. Quint. pp. 31. 18–32.4 W-I: making sense of a difference 82 I.8 The Lycurgan Staatsexemplar: real and mental paths from Athens to Alexandria 87 I.9 Looking for an alternative. A first synthesis 97 I.9.1 What alternative? The ‘paths’ of songs between persistence and innovation 102 I.9.2 What alternative? The ‘paths’ of texts 135 CHAPTER 2 142 THE EURIPIDEAN MUSICAL PAPYRI 142 II. Papyrus evidence: musical practice and textual transmission 142 II.1 P.Vind. G 2315: the material evidence 144 II.1.1 P.Vind. G 2315: the visual formatting. Something to do with Alexandrian colometry? 146 II.1.2 P.Vind. G 2315: reading signs. Looking for a performative explanation of ◊ and ○●◙ 157 II.1.3 P.Vind. G 2315 ll. 5–6 and the scholium to Eur. Or. 340 162 II.1.4 P.Vind. G 2315. Textual and/or performative variants: some considerations 173 II.2 P.Leid. inv. 510: the limits of the tradition 179 II.2.1 P.Leid. inv. 510: the material evidence 180 II.2.2 P.Leid. inv. 510: layout and variants. Which tradition? 185 II.2.3 P.Leid. inv. 510: which kind of performance? 197 II.3 Some concluding remarks 201 CHAPTER 3 204 THE ‘OTHER’ PATHS OF THE SONG: THEOCRITUS’ IDYLL 29 204 III. The ‘other’ paths of the song: musical mimicry ‘without music’ in Theocritus’ Idyll 29 204 III.1 The Lesbian models of Idylls 28–30 207 III.1.1 The Lesbian models: series of gl2d and gl2c and strophic structure 208 III.1.2 The Lesbian models: syntactic structure and distichic articulation in odes composed of series of gl 2d and gl 2c 215 III.2 Aeolic pentameters and greater asclepiads: looking for a tradition 221 III.3 Theocritus’ Idyll 29 between past and present: letting words sound their ‘music’ 225 BIBLIOGRAPHY 234 INDEX OF ANCIENT PASSAGES CITED 250 GENERAL INDEX 259 Brill,Academic,Publishers This book provides a thorough and challenging analysis of the self-defining identities of texts set to music in the ancient Greek world, redefining our knowledge of the transmission of ancient Greek music.