Music

2009 ◽  
pp. 568-578
Author(s):  
Eleonora Rocconi
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Performing Artists ◽  
Ancient Music ◽  
And Performance ◽  
People Today ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
Musical Forms

One area where it is particularly difficult to bridge the gap between text and performance is ancient music. This article notes that people today know very little about how ancient music sounded. It is much easier to relate ancient theories of music to other intellectual endeavours, such as the study of physics, mathematics, or ethics, than to investigate its connections with the work of practicing musicians. There is a paradox here, because ancient musical theories later inspired the development of musical forms on the part of performing artists. Modern opera, most famously, originated in an attempt at reconstructing ancient Greek music and drama. Greek musical theory laid the foundations for many aesthetic and theoretical speculations of later antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Perceptual Content ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Middle Ages

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy provides, twice each year, a collection of the best current work in the field of ancient philosophy. Each volume features original essays that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of themes and problems in all periods of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, from the beginnings to the threshold of the Middle Ages. From its first volume in 1983, OSAP has been a highly influential venue for work in the field, and has often featured essays of substantial length as well as critical essays on books of distinctive importance. Volume LIII contains: an article on several of Zeno of Elea’s paradoxes and the nihilist interpretation of Eudemus of Rhodes; an article on the coherence of Thrasymachus’ challenge in Plato’s Republic book 1; another on Plato’s treatment of perceptual content in the Theaetetus and the Phaedo; an article on why Aristotle thinks that hypotheses are material causes of conclusions, and another on why he denies shame is a virtue; and a book review of a new edition of a work possibly by Apuleius and Middle Platonist political philosophy.

KNOWLEDGE ON BREAST CANCER AND MASTECTOMY. DATING FROM ANCIENT GREEK UNTIL THE MIDDLE AGES

Maturitas ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. S47
Author(s):  
S. Dimitrakopoulos ◽  
V. Karmi ◽  
S. Koliantzaki ◽  
A. Sidiropoulou ◽  
K. Sorras ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
The Middle Ages

Choirboys and Choirgirls in the Victorian Church of England

1994 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 447-460
Author(s):  
Walter Hillsman
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Church Music ◽  
Performance Standards ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
Conspicuous Feature ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Middle Ages

Although the roles played by children in recent centuries in English church music have varied enormously, it is probably fair to say that choirs with at least some boys’ or girls’ voices have proven more important in musical, ecclesiastical, and social developments than those with none. The most obvious example of this is the choir of men and boys, which has constituted a conspicuous feature of cathedral and some collegiate music since the Middle Ages, except, of course, during the Commonwealth. As women and girls have until very recently been regarded as inappropriate in such music, it is difficult to imagine that the breadth of achievement in musical composition and performance standards associated with these choirs would have been possible if they had contained only men and no boys.

scholarly journals Genesis of consular institutions of european countries in Aincient and Middle Ages

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Local Law ◽  
The Middle Ages

The article finds out the peculiarities of the formation and development of consular institutions from the ancient times to the Middle Ages. The article deals with the specifics of the institutions that carried out the corresponding functions in the ancient Greek policies (including those located in the southern territories of modern Ukraine), ancient Rome, the leading states of medieval Europe. The foundations of the consular service in the Ancient Age were discovered at the Ancient Greek Institute of Proxenia, the Old Roman institutions, clientele (patronage) and praetorians (practors in the affairs of perigins). Subsequently, during the Middle Ages, on this basis a consultative institute emerged and began to act as representatives of the state in the trade and political sphere, first of all, by ensuring that the authorities of the country of residence adhere to the rules of local law and international customs against their fellow citizens, while protecting their personal and property rights and interests.

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 52

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Theory Of Measurement ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Middle Ages

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy provides, twice each year, a collection of the best current work in the field of ancient philosophy. Each volume features original essays that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of themes and problems in all periods of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, from its beginnings to the threshold of the Middle Ages. From its first volume in 1983, OSAP has been a highly influential venue for work in the field, and has often featured essays of substantial length as well as critical essays on books of distinctive importance. Volume LII contains an article on Anaxagoras’ theory of the intellect, another on Presocratic epistemology and stage-painting, one on Plato’s Euthyphro and another on his Parmenides, one on the varieties of pleasure in Plato and Aristotle, and three on Aristotle: his views on the analysis of arguments, theory of measurement, and the coincidental causes of actions.

Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Theatre Companies ◽  
Performance Traditions ◽  
Experimental Theatre ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Creative Artists ◽  
The Middle Ages

Graeco-Roman epic poetry was the staple of the early operatic repertoire and it continues to provide a rich storehouse of themes for contemporary creative artists working in divergent traditions. Since Tim Supple and Simon Reade’s stage adaptation of Ted Hughes’s Tales from Ovid for the RSC (1999), versions of Greek and Roman epics have routinely provided raw material for the performance repertoire both within major cultural institutions and from emergent, experimental theatre companies. The chapters in this volume range widely across time (the Middle Ages to the present), place (Europe, Asia, and the Americas), and genres (lyric, film, dance, opera) in their searches for ‘epic’ content and form in diverse performance arenas. The anxieties about the ability to write epic in the early modern world in some way explain, together with the precedent of Greek tragedy’s reworking of epic material, this migration to the theatre. Yet equally, with this migration, epic encountered the barriers imposed by neoclassicists, who sought to restrict serious theatre to a narrowly defined reality that precluded epic’s broad sweeps across time and place. In many instances in recent years, the fact that the Homeric epics were composed orally makes reinvention not only legitimate but also deeply appropriate. With specialists from Classics, Music, English, Modern Languages, Dance, Theatre and Performance Studies, and from the creative industries, this volume is the first systematic attempt to chart the afterlife of epic in modern performance traditions.

The Medieval Fortunes of ‘Theatrica’

Traditio ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 265-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glending Olson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Medieval History ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Mechanical Arts ◽  
The Middle Ages

Early in the twelfth century, Hugh of St. Victor in his Didascalicon divided philosophical knowledge into four areas: theoretical, practical (i.e., moral), mechanical, and logical. He further divided mechanical knowledge into seven arts, parallel to the liberal arts, giving last place to theatrica, which he defined briefly as ‘scientia ludorum.’ It proved to be the most controversial of his seven categories. Some twenty years ago W. Tatarkiewicz studied Hugh's idea, its sources, and its appearance in a few subsequent texts from the Middle Ages and Renaissance; later Nancy Howe added a reference from Petrarch. Since then, the concept of theatrics has seldom been treated in itself, although we now have substantially more evidence of its pervasiveness in medieval thinking, as a result of further scholarship on the Didascalicon and on the history of the mechanical arts. Drawing on these sources and on previously unreported material, this study attempts to describe in some detail the progress of theatrica during roughly the first three hundred years after its appearance in the works of Hugh. The medieval history of this idea does not tell us much about the theater, but it does tell us quite a lot about medieval attitudes toward play, entertainment, and performance, topics that learned circles did not often discuss extensively or dispassionately.

A Short Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Marjorie Curry Woods
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Waking Up ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Middle Ages

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book discusses a project based on the E. H. Gombrich Lectures given at the Warburg Institute in 2014. The author had become fascinated with the tradition of boys performing emotional speeches in women's voices in schools and the evidence from manuscripts indicating that this tradition persisted during the Middle Ages, as well as before and after. The three chapters in this book begin with a boy: the historical Augustine who weeps for the suicide of a fictional queen; young Achilles waking up in a strange new land where he will be asked to pretend to be a young woman; and an anonymous boy in a medieval lyric poem who performs a woman's lament for her dead lover. Each provides a different window into three interrelated aspects of medieval teaching: emotion, gender, and performance, with special emphasis on emotion.

Medieval Theories of Nutrition and Health

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa A. Vaughan
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Medical System ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Nutrition And Health ◽  
Theoretical Medicine ◽  
Humoral Theory ◽  
The Middle Ages

Ancient Greek humoral theory, as formulated primarily by Hippocrates and Galen, formed the basis of theoretical medicine in the Middle Ages. This chapter provides a brief overview of humoral theory, and explains how diet was directly related to disease and health in the Greek medical system. This chapter also traces some of the changes and modifications of humoral theory which took place through the Middle Ages.

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