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- Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity
- Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Glossary of Musical Instruments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction The Topic and the Sources
- Chapter 1 Sympotic Scenes and Songs
- Chapter 2 The Gentleman’s Lyre
- Chapter 3 Hellenistic Evolutions
- Chapter 4 Poets and Musicians at Upper-Class Greek Banquets
- Chapter 5 Music and Elite Dining in the Roman Age
- Chapter 6 Music at the Social Recreations of the Lower Classes
- Chapter 7 Music at the Suppers and Feasts of the Jewish People
- Chapter 8 Music at Christian Social Meals
- Chapter 9 Purposes and Pleasures
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index
Chapter 5 - Music and Elite Dining in the Roman Age
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2022
- Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity
- Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Glossary of Musical Instruments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction The Topic and the Sources
- Chapter 1 Sympotic Scenes and Songs
- Chapter 2 The Gentleman’s Lyre
- Chapter 3 Hellenistic Evolutions
- Chapter 4 Poets and Musicians at Upper-Class Greek Banquets
- Chapter 5 Music and Elite Dining in the Roman Age
- Chapter 6 Music at the Social Recreations of the Lower Classes
- Chapter 7 Music at the Suppers and Feasts of the Jewish People
- Chapter 8 Music at Christian Social Meals
- Chapter 9 Purposes and Pleasures
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index
Summary
Chapter 5 looks at the music that elite men and women made at their banquets, including their singing and dancing, and the types of professional entertainments they provided as hosts of social affairs. Music of the concert stage and theater were sources of entertainment for upper-class banquets and included excerpts from plays, solo works by citharodes, various kinds of dance (including mime and pantomime), and occasionally even staged plays with music and all. Elites differed about which forms of entertainment were suitable for a dinner party and whether it was proper for an aristocrat to sing or dance at a dinner party. Where aristocrats of the classical era had performed music as a form of personal self-display, reflecting their educations, elites of the Roman era engaged in self-imaging through their choices in music and their talk about it.
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- Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman AntiquityFrom the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine, pp. 172 - 222Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022