Music in the Odes of Horace (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts) - Hardcover

Lyons, Stuart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0856688444 ISBN 13: 9780856688447

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Following the success of Horace's Odes and the Mystery of Do-Re-Mi in which he proposed that Horace's Odes were truly carmina (songs), Stuart Lyons further explores the orality of the Odes in both the Augustan Age and their early medieval reception.

About this title

About the Author:

Stuart Lyons was senior Classics scholar at King's College, Cambridge.

Review:

Those who remember reciting Horaces Odes at school in a dry, dreary set-text way may wish that Stuart Lyons had been around in their day.' (BBC Music, 2010)

The Carmen Saeculare...,as Stuart Lyons shows in his admirably detailed monograph Music in the Odes of Horace, offered pious backing to Augustuss coup détat permanent.' (The Spectator, 2010)

Lavishly produced and well written.' (Nina Mindt Bryn Mawr Classical Review)

Lyons' book is a useful introduction to the evidence for musical performance of Horace's Odes both in antiquity and in the Middle Ages, (Timothy J. Moore Hermathena, No. 189 (Winter 2010))

About this edition

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0856688444
• ISBN 13: 9780856688447
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208