The Dance of the Muses: Choral Theory and Ancient Greek Poetics

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• The Dance of the Muses available on January 13 2016 from Indigo for 151.50
  
• ISBN bar code 9780199292400 ξ1 registered March 17 2016
  
• ISBN bar code 9780199292400 ξ2 registered January 13 2016
  
• Product category is Dance-of-the-Muses A-P-David Book

• Sku # 978019929240
  

This book develops an authentic and at the same time revolutionary musical analysis of ancient Greek poetry. It departs from the abstract metrical analyses of the past in that it conceives the rhythmic and harmonic elements of poetry as integral to the whole expression, and decisive in the interpretation of its meaning. David offers a thoroughgoing treatment of Homeric poetics: here some remarkable discoveries in the harmonic movement of epic verse, when combined with some neglected facts about the origin of the hexameter in a "dance of the Muses," lead to essential new thinking about the genesis and the form of Homeric poetry. He also gives a foretaste of the fruits to be harvested in lyric by a musical analysis, which applies a new theory of the Greek tonic accent and considers concretely the role of dance in performance.

^ The Dance of the Muses: Choral Theory and Ancient Greek Poetics ISBN 9780199292400 (revised Feb 2026)
^ (2012). The Dance of the Muses Indigo. ISBN 9780199292400 (revised Jan 2016)