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MUSIC AND MUSICIANS IN ANCIENT GREECE

By: Anderson, Warren D.

Price: $22.00 USD

Publisher: Cornell University Press: 1997

Seller ID: 17767

ISBN: 0801484324

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Scholars' name to half-title (Mark Golden). Else book is fine. ; 256 pages
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GIFTS OF THE MUSES: ECHOES OF MUSIC AND DANCE FROM ANCIENT GREECE / MOUSON DORA. MOUSIKOI KAI CHAREUTIKOI ANONXOI ANO TEN ARCHAIA ELLADA Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall. Athens

By: Bechraki, Eleni & Natassa Papadopoulou (Eds. ) ; Hellenic Ministry Of Culture

Price: $175.00 USD

Publisher: Hellenic Ministry of Culture: 2004

Seller ID: 32932

ISBN: 9602143746

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Creasing to spine. Some Creasing to upper section of book. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 294 pages
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LA TRAGEDIA GRECA NEL MELODRAMMA

By: Del Corno, Dario & Giampiero Tintori & Eduardo Rescigno Et Al.

Price: $28.00 USD

Publisher: Ediprint: 1986

Seller ID: 16856

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Light yellowing to edges of wraps. Minor shelfwear. ; Ediprint Cataloghi 6; 91 pages
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METHODOS VYZANTINES EKKLESIASTIKES MOUSIKES [BYZANTINIS EKKLISIASTIKIS MOUSIKIS] Theoria Kai Askeseis [Askiseis]

By: Eliopoulos, Dionysios P. [Eliopoulou, Dionyse P.

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Athena: 1993

Seller ID: 4202

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Minor rubbing and shelfwear. ; (Sympleromene & ananeomene) : treatise on Byzantine Church music in modern Greek. ; 142 pages
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HYMN AND EPIC A Study of Their Interplay in Homer and the Homeric Hymns

By: Evans, Stephen

Price: $90.00 USD

Publisher: Turun Yliopisto: 2001

Seller ID: 8930

ISBN: 9512919826

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Inscription from author to titlepage. Errata Slip tipped in. Very light pencil marginalia on a few pages. Faint creasing to upper corner of first 10 pages. Minor shelfwear. ; Doctoral thesis (Univ. Of Turku). ; Turun Yliopiston Julkaisuja. Sarja B ; Osa 244 = Annales Universitatis Turkuensis. Series B Tom. 244. Humaniora; 197 pages; Signed by Author
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THE ILLUSTRATED GOLDEN BOUGH

By: Frazer, Sir James George & Mary Douglas (Ed. ) & (Abridged and Ill. by Sabine MacCormack)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Doubleday & Company: 1978

Seller ID: 33457

ISBN: 0385145152

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. ; 9.8 X 7.5 X 1.2 inches; 253 pages
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L'ANNEAU DU NIBELUNG DE RICHARD WAGNER

By: Gaillard, Paul-Andre

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Paris, Editions E.G.P.: 1977

Seller ID: 22623

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Small tear to head of spine (2 cm). Some minor rubbing and creasing. ; 142pp, illustrated. Front cover has: "Essai pour servir a la comprehension d'un chef - d'oeuvre" ; 4to - over 9" - 12" tall; 142 pages
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TONARTEN UND STIMMUNGEN DER ANTIKEN MUSIK

By: Gombosi, Otto Johannes

Price: $80.00 USD

Publisher: Ejnar Munksgaard: 1939

Seller ID: 5739

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Former classics scholar's name on ffep (E. Kerr Borthwick). Mild creasing to edges of wraps. A couple of creases to spine. ; 148 pages
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TONARTEN UND STIMMUNGEN DER ANTIKEN MUSIK

By: Gombosi, Otto Johannes

Price: $80.00 USD

Publisher: Ejnar Munksgaard: 1939

Seller ID: 6162

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Former owner's name on front wrap (Albert Merriman). Creasing to bottom corner of book. A couple of creases to spine. ; 148 pages
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THE WORLD OF ROMAN SONG From Ritualized Speech to Social Order

By: Habinek, Thomas

Price: $47.00 USD

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press: 2005

Seller ID: 19444

ISBN: 0801881056

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Lower corner very lightly bumped else book is fine. Light shelfwear to DJ. ; In this bold work, Thomas Habinek offers an entirely new theoretical perspective on Roman cultural history. Although English words such as "literature" and "religion" have their origins in Latin, the Romans had no such specific concepts. Rather, much of the sense of these words was captured in the Latin word carmen, usually translated into English as "song." Habinek argues that for the Romans, "song" encompassed a wide range of ritualized speech, including elements of poetry, storytelling, and even the casting of spel...
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LATIN MUSIC THROUGH THE AGES

By: Kaldis, Cynthia

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Wauconda, Illinois, U.S.A., Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers: 1991

Seller ID: 21129

ISBN: 0865162425

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Faint scratches to front wrap else fine. ; Xli, 87pp. Medieval Latin. Selection of Latin choral music spanning the medieval, Renaissance and modern periods. ; 87 pages
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DANCE AND RITUAL PLAY IN GREEK RELIGION

By: Lonsdale, Steven H.

Price: $28.00 USD

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press: 1993

Seller ID: 26097

ISBN: 0801845947

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Book is fine. DJ has minor edgewear. ; In private and in public life, the ancient Greeks danced to express divine adoration and human festivity. They danced at feasts and choral competitions, at weddings and funerals, in observance of the cycles of both nature and human existence. Formal and informal dances marked the rhythms of life and death. In Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion, Steven Lonsdale looks at how the Greeks themselves regarded the act of dance, and how dance and related forms of ritual play in Greek religious festivals served a wide variety of functions in Greek society. Th...
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MUSIC IN THE ODES OF HORACE

By: Lyons, Stuart

Price: $28.00 USD

Publisher: Aris & Phillips: 2010

Seller ID: 21735

ISBN: 0856688444

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Corners very slightly bumped else book is fine. Light shelfwear to DJ. ; Viii, 204pp, illustrated. Following the success of Horace's Odes and the Mystery of Do-Re-Mi in which he proposed that Horace's Odes were truly carmina (songs) , Stuart Lyons further explores the orality of the Odes in both the Augustan Age and their early medieval reception. Challenging the perception of the Odes as purely literary works and drawing on extensive evidence in Horace and other ancient sources, Lyons argues that Horace's objective was to produce a unique type of performance art, a Latin re-interpretation of ...
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CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY IN LITERATURE, ART, AND MUSIC

By: Mayerson, Philip

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Scott Foresman & Co: 1971

Seller ID: 28823

ISBN: 0673156907

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Light Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Else minor shelfwear. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 509 pages
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CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY IN LITERATURE, ART, AND MUSIC

By: Mayerson, Philip

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Xerox Corporation: 1971

Seller ID: 33051

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Spine cover cracked along one side but holding. Else minor shelfwear. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 509 pages
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CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY IN LITERATURE, ART, AND MUSIC

By: Mayerson, Philip

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Xerox Corporation: 1971

Seller ID: 34033

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Boards are tired and worn. Front inner hinge cracked. Scholar's name to inner cover (Emmet Robbins). Minor pencilling to a few pages. Fair to good. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 509 pages
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THE MODES OF ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC

By: Monro, D. B.

Price: $140.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press: 1894

Seller ID: 2875

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Light discoloration to spine. Mild shelfwear. Foxing to ffeps. Gift inscription on ffep: "L. W. Hudson from M. T. Tatham"-- M. T. Tatham, a classics scholar at the end of the 19th C. ; Scarce First edition. ; 145 pages
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THE MODES OF ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC

By: Monro, D. B.

Price: $140.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press: 1894

Seller ID: 6579

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Light discoloration to spine. Mild shelfwear. Gift inscription with Greek text in black ink to ffep: "J. B. Stoughton Holborn from J. Godfrey Luard. Pau. [? ] January, 1908" pencil name of scholar to ffep (E. Kerr Borthwick). Light foxing to endpages ; Scarce First edition. ; 145 pages
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INTERPRETAZIONI MUSICALI SUL TEATRO DI ARISTOFANE

By: Pintacuda, Mario

Price: $70.00 USD

Publisher: Palumbo Editore: 1982

Seller ID: 5740

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Large blue Stamp to titlepage. Former classics scholar's name to ffep (E. Kerr Borthwick). Minor shelfwear to wraps. Wraps have DJ with minor shelfwear and slight edgewear. ; Questo studio affronta il problema della stretta interconnessione fra musica e poesia nel teatro di Aristofane, con lintento di indagare gli aspetti, le qualit, le caratteristiche del commento musicale che accompagnava I brani lirici. ; Letteratura Classica, 9; 138 pages
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THE GREEK AULOS A Study of its Mechanism and of its Relation to the Modal System of Ancient Greek Music (Followed By) a Survey of the Greek Harmoniai in Survival or Rebirth in Folk-Music

By: Schlesinger, Kathleen & (J. F. Mountford, Introduction)

Price: $315.00 USD

Publisher: Methuen & Company: 1939

Seller ID: 19550

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and institution label. Spine a bit sunned and discolored. 2 Corners bumped ; Unchanged Reprint of 1939 Edition. ; 577 pages; Classic and scarce study on Greek Music.
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MUSICAL DESIGN IN SOPHOCLEAN THEATER

By: Scott, William C.

Price: $23.00 USD

Publisher: Dartmouth College / University Press of New England: 1996

Seller ID: 17824

ISBN: 0874517397

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Scholars' name to ffep (Mark Golden). Very light bump to 1 corner. DJ spine is sunned and discolored. ; A new way to interpret the musical design underlying the music and choreography of Sophoclean theater. ; 352 pages
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