Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890-1930

236 Pages·2018·16.97 MB·English

by  Samuel N Dorf

Performing Antiquity

Performing Antiquity
Ancient Greek Music And dAnce froM
PAris to delPhi, 1890– 1930
Samuel N. Dorf
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Names: Dorf, Samuel N., author.
Title: Performing antiquity : ancient Greek music and dance
from Paris to Delphi, 1890–1930 / Samuel N. Dorf.
Description: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018016172 (print) | LCCN 2018038097 (ebook) |
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Subjects: LCSH: Music, Greek and Roman—Performance.
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μνάσεσθαί τινά φαιμι καὶ ἕτερον ἀμμέωv
Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time
— Sappho, If Not, Winter, frag. 147, trans. by Anne Carson
ἔλθε μοι καὶ, χαλέπαν δὲ λῦσον
ἐκ μερίμναν, ὄσσα δέ μοι τέλεσσαι
θῦμοσ ἰμέρρει, τέλεσον, σὺ δ’ αὔτα
σύμμαχος ἔσσο.
Come to me now again and deliver me from oppressive anxieties;
Fulfil all that my heart longs to fulfil, and you yourself be my fellow-fi ghter.
— Sappho, Greek Lyric I, last stanza from frag. 1, translated by David
A. Campbell

CONTENTS
List of Figures ix
List of Music Examples xi
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Musicology, Archaeology, Performance: Models and
Methods 1
2 Gabriel Fauré and Théodore Reinach: Hidden
Pianos and L’Hymne à Apollon 21
3 Performing Sappho’s Fractured Archive, or
Listening for the Queer Sounds in the Life and
Works of Natalie Clifford Barney 47
4 Performing Scholarship for the Paris
Opéra: Maurice Emmanuel’s Salamine (1929) 79
5 “To Give Greece Back to the Greeks”: Archaeology,
Ethnography, and Eva Palmer Sikelianos’s
Prometheus Bound 107
6 Scholars and Their Objects of Study; or, Loving Your
Subject 139
Notes 159
Bibliography 195
Index 213

FIGURES
2.1a and b Hidden Pleyel piano in lemonwood cabinet built for Théodore
Reinach’s Villa Kérylos (1913), shown open and closed. 22
2.2 Théodore Reinach’s transcription of Hymne à Apollon from
Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (1893). 35
2.3 Théodore Reinach and Gabriel Fauré, Hymne à Apollon
(1894), mm. 1– 4. Editorial completion of lacunae in m. 2 not
indicated. 36
2.4 Portrait of Théodore Reinach in Greek costume at home in Villa
Kérylos by Ernest Laurent. 44
3.1 The author in front of Natalie Clifford Barney’s “Temple à
l’Amitié,” at 20 rue Jacob. 48
3.2 A gathering of women, from Équivoque, including Eva Palmer,
Natalie Clifford Barney, and Liane de Pougy, in Barney’s garden in
Neuilly. 59
3.3 Eva Palmer and Penelope Duncan, possibly performing Équivoque,
in Natalie Clifford Barney’s backyard in Neuilly (ca. 1906). 61
3.4 Illustrated plate from Anna Morgan, An Hour with Delsarte: A
Study of Expression. 62
3.5 Image of garden production of Sapho/ Équivoque. 63
3.6 Natalie Clifford Barney and Colette. 68
3.7 Natalie Clifford Barney and Liane de Pougy. 69
3.8 Natalie Clifford Barney in Delphi, Greece. 70