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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 December 2025
- ISBN 9780198957997
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 240x165x25 mm
- Weight 614 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 21 black-and-white illustrations 647
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Short description:
Music as Classical Reception investigates the enduring importance of music in classical reception, adopting the concept of amplification as a key critical concept. The chapters examine musical settings, reimagining classical lives through music, and the impact of electrical amplification on the musical reception of classical culture.
MoreLong description:
Musical as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity investigates music as a site of classical reception from the early modern rise of opera to contemporary hip-hop. The volume's contributors explore topics across musical genres and classical sources--myth, epic, lyric, history, philosophy, archaeology--to demonstrate the enduring importance of music to engagements with classical antiquity, and vice versa. The wealth of music inspired by ancient Greece and Rome rests on an apparent paradox: compared with visual art, linguistic texts, or even material culture and architecture, precious little remains of ancient music, and what traces have remained are not audible in any straightforward sense; nonetheless, classical antiquity has provoked and permitted an extraordinary variety and volume of musical receptions. This edited collection offers case studies of the generative encounter between antiquity and later music makers, but also asks how new sounds are imagined as emerging from near-silence. Can a reception not only echo the past, but make the past louder, turning up the volume on what is currently muted or inaudible? In short, what does it mean to amplify antiquity? The volume proposes amplification as a new model for reception studies with relevance to the wider field, as a set of technologies, a rhetorical technique, and a sonic concept. Drawing on classics, music, sound studies, literary studies, and intellectual and cultural history, the chapters explore three different modes and contexts of reception: musical settings of ancient words; musical reimaginings of ancient lives, ideas, and myths; and the expansive and sometimes oblique encounters with Graeco-Roman antiquity that are powered by electric amplification and the media changes that come in its wake.
MoreTable of Contents:
Part I. Introduction
Classical Reception in Music: Sonic Figures, Ancient and Modern
Towards a Theory of Amplification
Part II. Amplifying Ancient Texts
Reshaping Catullus 101: Ned Rorem's Catullus: On The Burial Of His Brother
Ella Adaïewsky's Horazische Ode: A Female Composer's Response to Horace's Ode III 9
Homer for High Society: Professor Warr's Tale of Troy and Its Music
Part III. Amplifying Ancient Myth and Thought
Without Tomorrow, Without Yesterday: The Elusive Present-ness of Reception in Vernon Lee's Ariadne in Mantua
'Prends garde à toi': Carmen the Siren
Academic Disputations on Love: Socrates in Seventeenth-Century Opera
Amplifying Myth: Ariadne and the Others in Italian Opera
Part IV. Musical Reception after Electric Amplification
Digging in the Crates: Sampling Epic in Contemporary Hip-hop
Amplifying Sappho: Lesbian Musicians and the Echoes of Antiquity
Amplification, Reverberation, and Distortion: The Curious Story of Pompeii and Popular Music
