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  • Chapter 8 - Performance, Memory, and Affect
  • from Part IV - Audience, Music, and Repertoire
  • Edited by Lauren Curtis, Bard College, New York, Naomi Weiss, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book: Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds
  • Published online: 14 October 2021
  • Print publication: 28 October 2021, pp 203-233
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    This chapter explores the relationship between theatrical music, visual record, and audience memory as mediated by a group of Attic vases, mostly dated from the mid- to late sixth century BCE, that show choruses of animals, animal-riders, and/or men wearing animal costumes. I argue for a new interpretation of these sympotic vessels, whereby they are understood as objects that engage and participate in a viewer’s memory of choral performance. I emphasize the referential flexibility of such images of theatrical music-making, which can evoke one specific performance but also, simultaneously, multiple performances across various genres. The vases thus activate a viewer’s cultural repertoire of choreia, which could include his own bodily experience of singing and dancing in a chorus; in doing so, they draw him in as both spectator and performer within their own choral productions.

Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds
  • Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds
  • Edited by Lauren Curtis, Naomi Weiss
  • Published online: 14 October 2021
  • Print publication: 28 October 2021
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    In Greek mythology, the Muses are Memory's daughters. Their genealogy suggests a deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, but how was this connection understood and experienced by ancient authors, artists, performers, and audiences? How is music remembered and how does it memorialize in a world before recording technology, where sound accumulated differently than it does today? This volume explores music's role in the discourses of cultural memory, communication, and commemoration in ancient Greek and Roman societies. It reveals the many and varied ways in which musical memory formed a fundamental part of social, cultural, ritual, and political life in ancient Greek- and Latin-speaking communities, from classical Athens to Ptolemaic Alexandria and ancient Rome. Drawing on the contributors' interdisciplinary expertise in art history, philology, performance studies, history, and ethnomusicology, eleven original chapters and the editors' Introduction offer new approaches for the study of Graeco-Roman music and musical culture.