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Musical design in Sophoclean theater

A new way to interpret the musical design underlying the music and choreography of Sophoclean theater.

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  • "William C. Scott extends concepts set forth in his Goodwin Award-winning Musical Design in Aeschylean Theater (1984) by examining scansion patterns in the odes of the seven surviving Sophoclean tragedies. Analyzing the play as performed - its full expression in words, music, and dance - Scott finds that Sophocles' metrical patterns are not a secondary detail of the plays but a central feature of their musical organization. Just as the playwright enhanced awareness of themes with a series of recurring and developing verbal images, he also designed the music to guide the audience's understanding of unfolding, often ambiguous events. The fabric of music and meaning is so tightly woven, Scott argues, that significant portions of the plays cannot be fully realized on stage unless the musical effects created by the poet are incorporated."
  • "A new way to interpret the musical design underlying the music and choreography of Sophoclean theater."@en

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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
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  • "Musical design in Sophoclean theater"
  • "Musical design in Sophoclean theater"@en

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