Singing Alexandria: Music Between Practice and Textual Transmission

265 Pages·2006·3.08 MB·English

by  Lucia Prauscello

SINGING ALEXANDRIA
MNEMOSYNE
BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA
COLLEGERUNT
H. PINKSTER •H.S. VERSNEL
I.J.F. DE JONG •P.H. SCHRIJVERS
BIBLIOTHECAE FASCICULOS EDENDOS CURAVIT
H. PINKSTER, KLASSIEK SEMINARIUM, SPUISTRAAT 134, AMSTERDAM
SUPPLEMENTUM DUCENTESIMUM SEPTUAGESIMUM QUARTUM
L. PRAUSCELLO
SINGING ALEXANDRIA
SINGING ALEXANDRIA
MUSIC BETWEEN PRACTICE
AND TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION
BY
L. PRAUSCELLO
BRILL
LEIDEN•BOSTON
2006
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CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations ...................................................................... ix
Preface .......................................................................................... xiii
List of Plates ................................................................................ xv
Introduction ................................................................................ 1
Chapter 1
I. Alexandrian editing technique and texts with
musical notation: looking for ancient evidence .............. 7
I.1 Verbal metrics and musical rhythm: some
observations on Dion. Hal. De comp. verb.
11. 22–3 Auj.-Leb. .................................................. 10
I.2 Apollonius efidogrãfo! .............................................. 28
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.]) ........................................ 33
I.4 Sending a song: what texts cannot convey. Some
observations on the scholium to Pind. Pyth. 2. 6b
(= 2. 33 Drachm.) .................................................... 40
I.5 Contextualizing a misunderstanding: some
historical considerations on the scholium to
Dion. Thr.Arsgramm.2=Bekker, AGII,
751ll.30–2 ................................................................ 51
I.6 Cic. Orator, 183–4: the disguises of songs .............. 59
I.7 Metrical colon and instrumental cola in Arist.
Quint. pp. 31. 18–32. 4 W-I: making sense of a
difference .................................................................. 63
I.8 The Lycurgan Staatsexemplar: real and mental
paths from Athens to Alexandria ............................ 68
I.9 Looking for an alternative. A first synthesis .......... 78
I.9.1 What alternative? The ‘paths’ of songs
between persistence and innovation ............ 83
I.9.2 What alternative? The ‘paths’ of texts ...... 116
viii contents
Chapter 2
II. Papyrus evidence: musical practice and textual
transmission .................................................................... 123
II.1 P.Vind. G 2315: the material evidence .............. 125
II.1.1 P.Vind. G 2315: the visual formatting.
Something to do with Alexandrian
colometry? ................................................ 127
II.1.2 P.Vind. G 2315: reading signs.
Looking for a performative explanation
of and ...................................... 138
II.1.3 P.Vind. G 2315 ll. 5–6 and the
scholium to Eur. Or. 340 ........................ 143
II.1.4 P.Vind. G 2315. Textual and/or
performative variants: some
considerations .......................................... 154
II.2 P.Leid. inv. 510: the limits of the tradition ...... 160
II.2.1 P.Leid. inv. 510: the material
evidence .................................................... 161
II.2.2 P.Leid. inv. 510: layout and variants.
Which tradition? ...................................... 166
II.2.3 P.Leid. inv. 510: which kind of
performance? ............................................ 178
II.3 Some concluding remarks .................................... 182
Chapter 3
III. The ‘other’ paths of the song: musical mimicry
‘without music’ in Theocritus’ Idyll 29 ............ 185
III.1 The Lesbian models of Idylls 28–30 .................. 188
III.1.1 The Lesbian models: series of gl2d
and gl2c and strophic structure .............. 189
III.1.2 The Lesbian models: syntactic structure
and distichic articulation in odes
composed of series of gl2d and gl2c ........ 196
III.2 Aeolic pentameters and greater asclepiads:
looking for a tradition .......................................... 202
III.3 Theocritus’ Idyll 29 between past and
present: letting words sound their ‘music’ .......... 206
Bibliography .............................................................................. 215
Index of ancient passages cited ................................................ 231
General index ............................................................................ 240
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