Together with the lyre, the aulos was the most important musical instrument in ancient Greece. Its presence characterized many genres and contexts (elegiac poetry, rites – in some of them the aulos had cathartic effects –, choral lyric, drama, work songs, mourning). Its sounds were considered disquieting and upsetting on the one hand, and also seductive and enchanting on the other, for the aulos had a considerable mimetic versatility. These features put it far from paideia. Sometimes the aulos has erotic connotations, as it appears especially in comedy, where aulos players – both men (auletài) and women (auletrides), the latter especially in the symposium – have strong connections with eros. Sources also attest synaulia, although there are doubts concerning its performance. Such a practice was already obscure in Roman times.
L’aulòs, insieme con la lira, è lo strumento più rappresentativo del panorama musicale della Grecia antica, connesso con svariate forme di esecuzioni e di contesti (poesia elegiaca, riti – a cui si associa talora il suo effetto catartico –, lirica corale, dramma, canti di lavoro, lutto). L’attribuzione di caratteristiche inquietanti e destabilizzanti al suono di questo strumento, sovente associate con capacità seduttive ed incantatorie connesse con la sua versatilità mimetica, lo rende estraneo alla paideia. L’aulòs è talora connotato eroticamente, come è possibile riscontrare, peraltro, dalle caratteristiche attribuite nella commedia ai suoi esecutori (auletài e, in particolare, auletrìdes, queste ultime associate col simposio). Sebbene sussistano dubbi sul tipo di performance ad essa connessa, risulta attestata anche la pratica della synaulìa, già oscura in età romana.
Provenza, A. (2024). Aulòs. In E. Lelli (a cura di), Folkloricum. Archive of Ancient Folklore.
Aulòs
Provenza, Antonietta
2024-01-01
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Together with the lyre, the aulos was the most important musical instrument in ancient Greece. Its presence characterized many genres and contexts (elegiac poetry, rites – in some of them the aulos had cathartic effects –, choral lyric, drama, work songs, mourning). Its sounds were considered disquieting and upsetting on the one hand, and also seductive and enchanting on the other, for the aulos had a considerable mimetic versatility. These features put it far from paideia. Sometimes the aulos has erotic connotations, as it appears especially in comedy, where aulos players – both men (auletài) and women (auletrides), the latter especially in the symposium – have strong connections with eros. Sources also attest synaulia, although there are doubts concerning its performance. Such a practice was already obscure in Roman times.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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