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- Title
USING MUSIC IN PERFORMING ROMAN COMEDY.
- Authors
GELLAR-GOAD, T. H. M.; MOORE, TIMOTHY J.
- Abstract
In the original performances of Roman comedy, actors sang to the accompaniment of the two-piped tibia. Although complete reconstruction of this practice on the modern stage is impractical, participants in the 2012 NEH Summer Institute on Roman Comedy in Performance demonstrated several ways of incorporating music into modern performances, including hip hop-style performance; spoken dialogue with incidental music; a cappella singing to rhythms suggested by Plautus' and Terence's meters; accompanied singing of stichic meters to a repeated melody; and accompanied singing of a polymetric scene. Each of these approaches can be reproduced in the classroom to great pedagogical benefit.
- Subjects
ROME; THEATER; COMEDY -- History &; criticism; PERFORMANCE; NATIONAL Endowment for the Humanities; MUSIC in the theater
- Publication
Classical Journal, 2015, Vol 111, Issue 1, p37
- ISSN
0009-8353
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5184/classicalj.111.1.0037