Sing In The Spring - Utah Phillips

RAPSOD (Greek rapodos, from rapto - I sew, compose and odn - a song) - ancient Greek. wandering narrator. Representatives archaic. stages of development of the antique. of art. creativity, R. are known as performers of musical poetry. production"Oime" (oimn). There is evidence that sometimes R. performed an epic. poems, dancing or actively gesturing, indicating their connection with the oldest syncretic. art. In other cases, R. accompanied their compositions with playing the strings. instruments - lyre, cifare and formation. Art. R. was highly valued in Dr. Greece. Among the antique. legendary or semi-legendary R. - Amphion, Orpheus, Musey, Lin, Pan, Famiris, Pamph, Eumolpus, Olen, Demodok, Femiy and others. In the “Poetics” of Aristotle (chap. 26), the Rhapsody Sosistratus and Mnasitey living in the classic are named. era. Art of R. was characterized by a peculiar synthesis of tradition, manifested in a commitment to stable arts. structure, and innovation related to the implementation of individual melodic. revolutions. Muses the side of R.'s art is still little studied. There is reason to believethat the harmonious norms of their work were due to the anemitonic stage of the muses. thinking (see. Anemitonic scale).