Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles and the Origins of Indo-European Metrical Poetry

Tuck, Anthony

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“…texere back to *tetƙ-'to fashion'). From modern observation of weavers in India and Central Asia, Tuck 2006 suggests that the metaphor originates from the practice of weaving complex designs. Since complicated designs demand the memorization of a great amount of information, weavers used rhythmic chants to remember distinctive numeric sequences and reproduce specific patterns.…”

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Pindar’s <i>Pythian Twelve</i>: A Linguistic Commentary and a Comparative Study

Massetti

2024

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This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the cc by-nc 4.0 license, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. Further information and the complete license text can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ The terms of the cc license apply only to the original material. The use of material from other sources (indicated by a reference) such as diagrams, illustrations, photos and text samples may require further permission from the respective copyright holder.Publication of this volume was generously sponsored by the hkbu Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology-Amway Development Fund.This book was produced in the framework of the project The Lords of the Rings: A Comparative Lens on Ring-Compositions of Greek Lyric Poetry (msca 0000083-project loracola) funded through the program "next Generation eu, nrrp m4c2" (cup c61b 22002760001).

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Pindar’s <i>Pythian Twelve</i>: A Linguistic Commentary and a Comparative Study

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2024

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“…rhythmical sung sentences or rhymes used by weavers as mnemonic devices representing weave patterns. Anthony Tuck (2006) has put forward the fascinating hypothesis that the metrical sequences of archaic Greek poetry (and, more broadly, the early corpus of Indo-European metrical poetry) might have originally encoded numerical information related to weaving patterns, used in the process of fabric-making. Tuck draws this hypothesis based on two sets of comparative evidence.…”

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Cyclic Patterns of Movement Across Weaving, Epiplokē and Live Coding

2018

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This article hosts an interdisciplinary exploration of cyclic rhythmic structures, bringing together historical references to ground understanding of algorithmic electronic dance music, and in particular the algorave movement. The role of pattern in uniting dance, music and language is investigated in the ancient practice of weaving, in ancient Greek choral lyric, and contemporary live coding. In this context the TidalCycles environment is introduced, with some visual and audio examples. Cyclic metrical patterns in ancient Greek are then explored in detail, particularly the metrical transformations of Epiplokē. Finally, this jump between contemporary and ancient practice leads us to consider algorave itself as a Luddite movement, its proponents engaged in an unravelling of technology.

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“…The notion of correlation between work processes of textile production, particularly weaving, and literary expression and form has received more attention in relation to Greek texts. Key investigations touching on sound-play, metre and weaving are Nosch 2014; Tuck 2006;Tuck 2009.…”

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Listening for licia: A Reconsideration of Latin licia as Heddle-Leashes

Öhrman¹

2017

Zea Books

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Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles and the Origins of Indo-European Metrical Poetry

Cited by 60 publications

References 14 publications

Pindar’s <i>Pythian Twelve</i>: A Linguistic Commentary and a Comparative Study

Pindar’s <i>Pythian Twelve</i>: A Linguistic Commentary and a Comparative Study

Cyclic Patterns of Movement Across Weaving, Epiplokē and Live Coding

Listening for licia: A Reconsideration of Latin licia as Heddle-Leashes

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