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Catullus: lyric poet, lyricist

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An exploration of the Catullan lyric voice through twentieth-century musical reception
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There exists between lyric poetry and music a bond that is at once tangible and grounded in practice, and yet that is indeterminate, a matter of perception as much as theory. From Graeco-Roman antiquity to the modern day, lyrical forms have brought together music and text in equal partnership: in archaic Greece, music and lyric poetry were inextricably (now irrecoverably) coupled; when lyric poetry flowered in the eighteenth century, composers harnessed text to music in order to create the...

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Classics Faculty
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Classical Languages & Lit
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University of Oxford
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HUMS
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Classics Faculty
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University of Oxford
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HUMS
Department:
Classics Faculty
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University of Oxford
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HUMS
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Music Faculty
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DPhil
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Doctoral
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University of Oxford


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2018-06-01
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