God's Lyre

Sean Alexander Gurd is the Floyd A. Cailloux professor of classics at the University of Texas at Austin. He has active research interests in the areas of Ancient Theatre (especially tragedy), Ancient Music, and any part of intellectual culture that interfaced with the concept of art, craft, or technique. He is also the director of the Ancient Music and Performance Lab, which is dedicated to exploring innovative ways of integrating arts practice with humanities scholarship. He has written four monographs and edited several anthologies.

• Introduction Part I. Naturalist Theories of Music 1: Theophrastus and the Physiology of Music 2: Stoic Music Part II. Practical Music in the Naturalist Mode 3: Music and Rhetoric 4: God's Lyre Conclusion: John Chrysostom and Lyric Psalmody