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Dionysus and the Ambiguity of Orgiastic Music

Giorgio Ieranò

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This chapter analyzes the complex and ambivalent role of Dionysus as a god of music; his relationship with “orgiastic” music; his function—parallel to that of the Muses—as inspirer and patron of various poetical and musical forms; and the cult epithets (Musegetes, Melpomenos, Auloneus) linking the god to music; the only instance of Dionysus as the inventor of a musical instrument (the tympana).

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This chapter analyzes the complex and ambivalent role of Dionysus as a god of music; his relationship with “orgiastic” music; his function—parallel to that of the Muses—as inspirer and patron of various poetical and musical forms; and the cult epithets (Musegetes, Melpomenos, Auloneus) linking the god to music; the only instance of Dionysus as the inventor of a musical instrument (the tympana).

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This chapter analyzes the complex and ambivalent role of Dionysus as a god of music; his relationship with “orgiastic” music; his function—parallel to that of the Muses—as inspirer and patron of various poetical and musical forms; and the cult epithets (Musegetes, Melpomenos, Auloneus) linking the god to music; the only instance of Dionysus as the inventor of a musical instrument (the tympana).

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