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Hearing and Dancing Beats: An Interartistic Appropriation of Meters in Greek Tragedy and Brazilian Traditional Dances



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Marcus Mota Cinthia Nepomuceno

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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2015.07.007

University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil Instituto Federal de Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil

In this paper we propose a plural approach to ancient Greek music by philological analysis, digital sound technology, and choreographic investigation. Our aim is to construct a model to expose the performative horizon that is found in the text. In order to do that, we proceed from a textual and metrical analysis first. The results from this analysis are processed by a DAW (Digital audio workstation). After this, some audio files are provided and submitted to dance improvisation. In the last part of this research, there is a comparative analysis between Greek rhythms and Brazilian traditional dances.

ancient Greek music, sound studies, metrical description, dance studies, Brazilian traditional dances