The Music of Tragedy

Naomi Weiss is Assistant Professor of Classics at Harvard University. She has published articles on tragedy, Pindar, and ancient Greek musical culture, and is coeditor of a volume on the genres of archaic and classical Greek lyric.

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Note on Editions and Translations
Introduction: In Search of Tragedy’s Music

1. Words, Music, and Dance in Archaic Lyric and Classical Tragedy
Before Tragedy: Imaginative Suggestion in Archaic Choral Lyric
Metamusical Play in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Early Euripides
2. Chorus, Character, and Plot in Electra
Electra and the Chorus
Performed Ecphrasis
Choral Anticipation and Enactment
3. Musical Absence in Trojan Women
The Paradox of Absent Choreia
New Songs and Past Performances
Performing the Fall of Troy
4. Protean Singers and the Shaping of Narrative in Helen
Birdsong and Lament
New Music
Travel and Epiphany
5. From Choreia to Monody in Iphigenia in Aulis
Spectatorship, Enactment, and Desire
Past and Present Mousike
Choreia and Monody

Conclusion: Euripides’ Musical Innovations
Works Cited
General Index
Index Locorum