Metre and Rhythm in Greek Verse von Joan Silva Barris | ISBN 9783700169024

Metre and Rhythm in Greek Verse

von Joan Silva Barris, herausgegeben von Herbert Bannert und Georg Danek
Mitwirkende
Autor / AutorinJoan Silva Barris
Herausgegeben vonHerbert Bannert
Herausgegeben vonGeorg Danek
Buchcover Metre and Rhythm in Greek Verse | Joan Silva Barris | EAN 9783700169024 | ISBN 3-7001-6902-7 | ISBN 978-3-7001-6902-4

Metre and Rhythm in Greek Verse

von Joan Silva Barris, herausgegeben von Herbert Bannert und Georg Danek
Mitwirkende
Autor / AutorinJoan Silva Barris
Herausgegeben vonHerbert Bannert
Herausgegeben vonGeorg Danek
Metre and Rhythm in Greek Verse gives a general and comprehensive view of our up-to-date knowledge of ancient Greek song and recitation and goes further into the study of the different poetic genres and metrical-rhythmical phenomena. Unlike most of the previous research, it makes a combined use of all the sources available: metrical data, prosodic analysis, ancient works on rhythm and metrics, ancient musical documents and comparison with later musical tradition as well as with other cultures. The book provides new and interesting perspectives on the subject. It gives a broader framework to understand some metrical zeugmata and discovers new relations between syllables and rhythmical time-lengths. For some specific genres, the author goes over various possible analysis methods. In many other cases, he gives innovative arguments to support generally accepted interpretations or provides new evidence to defend traditional analyses which had been abandoned for decades. Metre and Rhythm in Greek Verse is a systematic and updated study on ancient Greek rhythm, a work which fills a gap in the reflourishing research on ancient Greek music.