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Author Dorf, Samuel N., author

Title Performing antiquity : ancient Greek music and dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890-1930 / Samuel N. Dorf
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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Contents Cover; Performing Antiquity; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Music Examples; Acknowledgments; 1 Musicology, Archaeology, Performance: Models and Methods; 2 Gabriel Fauré and Théodore Reinach: Hidden Pianos and L'Hymne à Apollon; 3 Performing Sappho's Fractured Archive, or Listening for the Queer Sounds in the Life and Works of Natalie Clifford Barney; 4 Performing Scholarship for the Paris Opéra: Maurice Emmanuel's Salamine (1929); 5 "To Give Greece Back to the Greeks": Archaeology, Ethnography, and Eva Palmer Sikelianos's Prometheus Bound; 6 Scholars and Their Objects of Study
Or, Loving Your SubjectNotes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Performing Antiquity tells the captivating story about some of the most intriguing Belle Époque personalities -archaeologists, philologists, classicists, and musicologists - and the dancers, composers, choreographers and musicians who brought their research to life at the birth of Modernism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 14, 2019)
Subject Music, Greek and Roman -- Performance
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018038097
ISBN 019061210X
9780190612115
0190612118
9780190612122
0190612126
9780190612108