Singing Alexandria: Music Between Practice and Textual Transmission

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