Sudden Song: The Musical Structure of Sophocles’ Trachiniae

Catenaccio, Claire

doi:10.1353/are.2017.0000

Arethusa

2017

DOI: 10.1353/are.2017.0000

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Sudden Song: The Musical Structure of Sophocles’ Trachiniae

Claire Catenaccio¹

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Ancient Plays: Are They Musicals?

Moore

2022

Greek Rom. Music. Stud.

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Almost all ancient plays have three things in common with most modern musicals. First, the basic structure of most ancient plays, like most musicals, involved alternation between song and speech. Second, the songs of ancient plays, like those of musicals, could have a wider cultural relevance, living on beyond their original performance context. Third, in most ancient plays, as in musicals, there is a strong sense that song and dance are as important as, or even more important than, what occurs in spoken dialogue in providing pleasure to the audience and conveying the meaning of plays. Scholarship of the last decade has made clearer the centrality of music to ancient theater and has taken important steps in understanding how that music worked.

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Ancient Plays: Are They Musicals?

Moore

2022

Greek Rom. Music. Stud.

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Les chants choraux de bonheur dans la tragédie de Sophocle. Fonction dramatique et effets pragmatiques

Marseglia

2023

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Résumé : Plusieurs tragédies de Sophocle présentent des chants choraux de bonheur juste avant l’accomplissement tragique du destin des héros. Par la place de choix qu’ils occupent dans le dispositif dramatique, par la dimension esthétique marquée que leur donne le fait d’être insérés dans la performance musicale et chorégraphique du groupe choral, ils deviennent les catalyseurs de la réponse esthétique, sémantique et émotionnelle du public et un puissant moyen de réaliser les effets du spectacle tragique. Si les souhaits exprimés par le chœur restent sans effet à l’intérieur de l’intrigue, les chants choraux de bonheur trouvent en revanche une grande efficacité dans la représentation poétique et spectaculaire.

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Sudden Song: The Musical Structure of Sophocles’ Trachiniae

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Ancient Plays: Are They Musicals?

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Les chants choraux de bonheur dans la tragédie de Sophocle. Fonction dramatique et effets pragmatiques

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