The essay aims to comment on the text of the Vita Sophoclis 23, where it is reported that Sophocles introduced the Phrygian melody in his songs mixing it with the dithyrambic style. The analysis is conducted on the background of the intellectual climate that characterized Sophocles’ century, and of the recent musical trends. It is argued there that Sophocles was not immune from the so called “new music“. His dramatic songs maybe configured as an important precursor of the euripidean powerful experimentalism and of the striking theatrical character of the “new-dithyrambic” poetry.
Ditirambo e tragedia sofoclea
LOMIENTO, LIANA
2017
Abstract
The essay aims to comment on the text of the Vita Sophoclis 23, where it is reported that Sophocles introduced the Phrygian melody in his songs mixing it with the dithyrambic style. The analysis is conducted on the background of the intellectual climate that characterized Sophocles’ century, and of the recent musical trends. It is argued there that Sophocles was not immune from the so called “new music“. His dramatic songs maybe configured as an important precursor of the euripidean powerful experimentalism and of the striking theatrical character of the “new-dithyrambic” poetry.File in questo prodotto:
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