title: Orthios as a Quality of Sound
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metadata.value: Almazova, Nina
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-09-09T09:43:56Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-09-09T09:43:56Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Nina Almazova. Orthios as a Quality of Sound. Philologia Classica 2020, 15 (1), 25–36
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2020.102
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/19318
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: An attempt to interpret the famous ancient musical composition known as ὄρθιος νόμος requires an analysis of all available evidence connecting ὄρθιος with sounds. The most extensive
  description of this nome (Dio 1. 1) ascribes it a military (or generally stimulating) character.
  This conforms with a number of passages, where an ὄρθιος sound ‘makes one stand up’ to
  help, or to fight, i.e. it stimulates dynamic activity. Perhaps, then, this was the initial meaning
  of the adjective, from which it eventually morphed to mean ‘sonorous’ or ‘piercing’. It seems
  that a sound could be made piercing and pervasive both by its volume and by its pitch, therefore ὄρθιος as a quality of sound frequently correlates with ‘loud’ and ‘high’. Nevertheless, a
  common interpretation that equates ὄρθιος with ὀξύς is unwary: the conventional metaphor
  in ancient Greek concerning a sound’s pitch is ὀξύς  — βαρύς (‘sharp’  — ‘heavy’), whereas
  the spatial metaphor of vertical (‘high’ — ‘low’) is not reliably attested. Another characteristic of sound that our sources correlate with ὄρθιος is ‘strained’ (ἔντονος, ἀνάτασιν ἔχων,
  ἀνατεταμένος), which in its turn likely indicates loudness (but does not literally translate as
  either ‘high’ or ‘swift’) and physical effort on behalf of the performers, or else the ethos of a
  musical piece, which transmitted tension to the audience.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 15; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ancient Greek music
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nomes
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: orthios
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Orthios as a Quality of Sound
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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