Music as Classical Reception

Emily Pillinger is Reader in Classics and Interdisciplinary Humanities at King's College London. She studied at Oxford and recerived a PhD at Princeton. She has held positions in the UK and USA as a teaching fellow (Marlboro College), postdoctoral researcher (Bristol), and lecturer (Oxford). She is the author of Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy (Cambridge, 2019). She has also studied the reception of Graeco-Roman myth in twentieth and twenty-first century music, publishing on Britten, Tippett, Xenakis, and Turnage. She has been engaging in creative music practice as research through the AHRC-funded project Penelope's Web.Miranda Stanyon is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne, where her research is supported by an Australian Research Council DECRA. She received her doctorate from QMUL and held a Junior Research Fellowship at Cambridge, before joining King's College London as a Lecturer in Comparative Literature. Her work has appeared in Research in English Studies, Modern Philology, Huntington Library Quarterly, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, and she is co-editor of Music and the Sonorous Sublime in European Culture (Cambridge, 2020) and author of Resounding the Sublime (Pennsylvania, 2021).

• Part I. Introduction 1: Miranda Stanyon and Emily Pillinger: Classical Reception in Music: Sonic Figures, Ancient and Modern 2: Miranda Stanyon and Emily Pillinger: Towards a Theory of Amplification Part II. Amplifying Ancient Texts 3: Stephanie Oade: Reshaping Catullus 101: Ned Rorem's Catullus: On The Burial Of His Brother 4: Markus Stachon: Ella Adaïewsky's Horazische Ode: A Female Composer's Response to Horace's Ode III 9 5: Michael Trapp: Homer for High Society: Professor Warr's Tale of Troy and Its Music Part III. Amplifying Ancient Myth and Thought 6: Eugenio Refini: Without Tomorrow, Without Yesterday: The Elusive Present-ness of Reception in Vernon Lee's Ariadne in Mantua 7: Emily C. Mohr: 'Prends garde à toi': Carmen the Siren 8: Myrthe L. Bartels: Academic Disputations on Love: Socrates in Seventeenth-Century Opera 9: Tiziana Ragno: Amplifying Myth: Ariadne and the Others in Italian Opera Part IV. Musical Reception after Electric Amplification 10: Justine McConnell: Digging in the Crates: Sampling Epic in Contemporary Hip-hop 11: Samuel N. Dorf: Amplifying Sappho: Lesbian Musicians and the Echoes of Antiquity 12: Joanna Paul: Amplification, Reverberation, and Distortion: The Curious Story of Pompeii and Popular Music