内容説明
手書きを含むメーイの音楽・悲劇関係全著作を、一次資料において厳密に踏まえ、特に主著『古代旋法論』についてはラテン語の語法にも細心の注意を払い、旋法、古代悲劇上演形式、芸術体系と悲劇カタルシスに関する彼の理論を再構成する。さらに、唯一の詩作品「フュッリスについて」を手がかりとして人文主義への志向を明らかにする。
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Contents
Preface
Part I THE ANCIENT THEORY OF THE MODES AND MEIS IDEAL OF MUSIC
Chapter 1 Meis Interpretation of the Ptolemaic Tonos System
1.1. Ptolemys system of the tonoi
1.2. Meis interpretation
Chapter 2 From the Theory of Music to the Aesthetics of Music
2.1. Meis view of ancient music
2.2. Musics autonomous power of expressing emotions
Chapter 3 Musics Expressivity and Criticism of Polyphony
3.1. Three arguments against polyphony
3.2. Meis thought compared with his contemporaries
3.3. Musics expressivity and drama
Chapter 4 Introducing Alypius System of Musical Notation
4.1. Alypius and Mei
4.2. Agreements and disagreements
Part II THE PERFORMANCE OF ANCIENT TRAGEDY, AS RECONSTRUCTED FROM THE ARISTOTELIAN POETICS
Chapter 5 The Interpretations of the Poetics before Mei
5.1. The current standard interpretation of the means of poetry
5.2. The manuscript transmission of the Poetics
5.3. Vettoris interpretation
Chapter 6 Meis Interpretation of the Poetics: Ancient Tragedy as a Wholly Musical Drama
6.1. The theoretical foundation found in Meis letters to Vettori
6.2. The picture of tragedy provided in On the Modes
6.3. What Mei does and does not owe to Vettori
6.4. The transmission of Meis picture of tragedy
Chapter 7 Mei and the Recitative Theory of LEuridice
7.1. Peris theory of the recitative
7.2. Paliscas view
7.3. Mei and Peri in historical perspective
7.4. Boethius the mediator
PART III THE AESTHETIC INTERPRETATION OF ARISTOTLES THEORY
Chapter 8 From the Means of Poetry to a System of the Arts
8.1. The modern concept of “art”
8.2. Meis Classification of the arts
8.3. Meis view of the work of art
8.4. Mei in the history of the concept
Chapter 9 Meis Interpretation of Tragic Katharsis as the Culmination of his Aesthetic Thought
9.1. Meis mechanistic interpretation of katharsis
9.2. Dancing and katharsis in the Poetics
9.3. Meis interpretation in historical perspective
9.4. The aesthetics of katharsis
PART IV MEI AND HUMANISM
Chapter 10 Methodology
10.1. Meis methods of research
10.2. Textual criticism
10.3. The Latin prose style of On the Modes
Chapter 11 The Epigram De Phyllide
11.1. Cod. Vat. Barb. lat. 1819, fol. 93
11.2. The Antigone excerpt
11.3. The form and thought of De Phyllide
Conclusion A Belated Humanist and Premature Aesthetician
References
Manuscripts
Printed books and articles
Indices
Index of names and subjects
Index of Italian words
Index of Latin words
Index of Greek words
Index of quoted passages
