Greek metrics and rhythmics
Summer School

The acquired competence, which arises from the practice of close reading and careful observation of the texts under study, in light of the ancient metric sources and the ancient tradition of lyrical texts, will contribute to the training of professionals able to study and understand, in a manner philologically founded, every type of poetic composition coming from ancient Greece. It will also allow the rigorous interpretation of the verses and the metrical arrangement of poetic texts. This specific skill can support both a more conscious teaching practice and a more specialized critical and editorial activity.

 The course takes place every year in the first week of September, from Monday to Friday. This year it will take place from the 5th to the 9th September 2022.

It includes lectures, workshops, two Evening Conferences, a final exam and a concluding Round Table.

The workshops are moments of application and in-depth analysis of the topics covered during the lessons; the Evening Conferences and the concluding Round Table are experiences of direct confrontation with specialists of the sector, coming from Italian and foreign Universities. They also have the purpose of providing the necessary additions, for what concerns the historical-artistic aspects (musical iconography) and musicological aspects.

The languages ​​that will be used in the course of the Summer School will be Italian and English.

Obtaining the certificate of participation is subject to the frequency of the didactic activity and to passing the final exam.

The structure of the course includes a total of n. 100 hours of training activities, corresponding to n. 4 credits for the scientific disciplinary sector L-FIL-LET / 02; the internal structure of the lessons will be as follows:

PROGRAM

Metrics, Rhythmics, Music: Text and its Performance

Classes

Monday, 5 September, h. 15-19, Palazzo Albani Aula C1

Lesson

L. Lomiento. (I) Introduction to Ancient Theory of Metres and of Rhythms  (II) Lyric Text and its Performance

Tuesday, 6 September, h. 9-13, Palazzo Albani Aula C1

Lesson

G. Galvani, G. Pace.  Tragic Text and Its Performance

Tuesday, 6 September, h. 15.15-17 Palazzo Albani Aula C1

Workshop (I), L. Lomiento

Tuesday, 6 September, h. 17.30-19.15, Palazzo Albani Aula Clemente XI

Evening Lecture

Susanna Sarti (Direzione Regionale Musei della Toscana), Rhythms and Sounds in Ancient Greek Art

Wednesday, 7 September, h. 9-13, Palazzo Albani Aula C1

Lesson

L. Bravi. Comic Text and Its Performance

Wednesday, 7 September, h. 15.15-17, Palazzo Albani Aula C1

Workshop (II), G. Galvani, G. Pace

Wednesday, 7 September, h. 17.30-19.15 Palazzo Albani Aula Clemente XI

Evening Lecture

J. Silva Barris (Institut Català d'Arquelogia clàssica), Musical rhythm and poetic drama in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon

Thursday, 8 September, h. 9-13, Palazzo Albani Aula C1

Workshop (III), L. Bravi.

Thursday, 8 September, h. 15.15 – 18, Palazzo Albani Aula C1

Final Written Test (L. Lomiento, G. Galvani, G. Pace, L. Bravi)

Friday, 9 September, h. 9.15-14, Palazzo Albani Aula Clemente XI

Round Table

Chair: Giovanna Pace

9.15 Opening welcome

9.30 – 10.10 Armand D’Angour (University of Oxford, Jesus College), Understanding Greek Metre as Music

10.10 – 10.50 Paolo Scattolin (Università di Verona), Ancient Colometry of  Greek Poetic Texts 25 years after. Time to take stock.

Coffee break 10.50 - 11.15

11.15 – 11.30 Liana Lomiento will deliver the VI B. Gentili Prize

Chair: Giampaolo Galvani

11.30 – 12.10 Marco Ercoles (Università Alma Mater di Bologna) Metrics Music and Performance in Pindar: Some Case Studies

12.10 - 12.50 Thomas Phillips (University of Manchester), Pindar’s Rhythmical Poetics

12.50 - 14 Luigi Bravi, Discussion and Final Remarks.

Final Written Test

The Summer School in Greek Metrics and Rhythmics is addressed to Italian and foreign students, non-graduates and graduates (undergraduates, masters), PhD students and PhDs; it is also addressed to teachers of classical high schools or other schools interested in classical metrics, and to all scholars and colleagues interested in the history of the poetic forms of ancient Greece.

The necessary requirement is sufficient knowledge of ancient Greek language.

All registered candidates will be guaranteed food and accommodation in the structures of the ERDIS (Regional Body for the Right to Education), and the educational material necessary for the conduct of study and laboratory activities (stationery, photocopies, etc.). ). In particular, the members will be housed in the Central International College, Vicolo San Filippo, 2, in double rooms (with special needs that will be communicated beforehand to the organization) and will use the Mensa del Duca, located in the immediate vicinity, Via Budassi, 3.

For those who do not want to use the residential facilities and facilities described above, no reimbursement will be made for the costs incurred.

The certificate of participation, which is subordinate to the teaching activity and to passing the final exam, guarantees the acquisition of 4 credits.