You're welcome! Thanks for the lovely comment and sorry for the slow reply- my device didn't notify me. Let me know if you have any suggestions for future videos.
Great, Dear Maria, the Chorus was moving and more than that, D A N C I N G ! Orchestra- the "round" thing- was where the ΟΡΧΗΣΙΣ (DANCE) took place, as You just said. Renaissance Opera is a try for the Drama in a the New World. A Greek friend, Nikephoros. (my humble opinion)
Thank you so much for this video! I'm doing an early modern play for my dissertation and it has a chorus in it which has really been baffling, so this helped a lot!
@@ringdonuts8125 cool, if it is early modern then they may use a Roman tragedian Seneca to inspire their use of the chorus too. 😊 good luck on your assignment!
Thanks for the lovely comment. I've not made anything new in a while because of work but should have more videos up in summer 😊👍 Good luck with your drama exam!
THAT ... was actually super cool! I'm sitting here trying to broadening my understanding of how to write music with some new dimensions and I'm googling and video surfing for words and "antistrophe" led me here! I've heard a little about Greek drama way back (!) in school but we didn't care about it then and nor did the teachers ... It was more like "Old dead Greek stuff ... good riddance!". This video was much more alive and inspiring! :D Some sick stuff you can do with grouping voices and instruments together or put them in contrast or ... and ... or ... hmmm! THANK YOU!
Love from India🇮🇳 i got an exam in upcoming month's and needed a brief explanation to it, due to health issues i couldn't join classes so your video helped me a lot❤️ thanks a lot Mam🙏
hey, thank you. I'm on a strange hunt to hear anything and everything I possibly can of 'real' chorus music from tragedies. Any pointers would be deeply appreciated. It's a bit of an obsession at this point.
Hi, thanks for commenting and for your patience whilst I reply. If you look on the Pronomos Vase you can see the different instruments that would have been used in the theatre (I'll make a video on this in the next few months). Oxford University have a research project to ty and reconstruct the sound of Greek music: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/ancient-music-and-theology-network-0 Note that it would have most likely been different for comedy, because the only unmasked character in comedy would be the hetaira flute-girl, who would play a double reeded instrument like the aulos. Hope this helps!
Currenlty I am reading Lysistrata in a greek comedy course, there is a parados where the chorus comes in , what is a parados? I tried to search it but couldnt find anything.
Parados is when a chorus comes forward to give their speech or song to the audience. Part 2 of this video on my channel goes through parados and eisodos 😊👍
Oh that makes sense,Ike very time they appear or just the first one? Clearly I need to watch the whole second part 😂 Also where would recommend to learn more about Athenian comedy and Greek comedy? Thank You again!!
@@danielpleitez-martinez7638 I'll be doing some comedy videos soon. Eisodos is their entrance, parodos is when they come forward. Either can happen multiple times 😊👍
What a useless comment to make. But I guess you can only communicate with your dog, given your level of understanding. No, apologies for that! Your dog must be smarter than you for sure!
Hi Daniel, That is generally correct. However, the chorus have different degrees of involvement in the story depending on the play. Euripides' choruses, for example, sometimes take a more prominent role such as the chorus of Trojan Women in Trojan Women. This is sometimes easy to spot through the titles of the play (which were given by later authors based on how prominent the chorus were) e.g. Aeschylus' Libation Bearers and Eumenides present the chorus to drive the plot through their interactions with key characters. Hope that helps!
Hi, thanks for commenting and for your patience whilst I reply. The main cause of the masks would be so that their fixed expressions would be visible from the back of the theatre. Although in the fifth-century masks might have been more naturalistic, they became very exaggerated in the Roman era (1C BC). The masks were also a good way of distinguishing a demographic in the chorus, for example, the chorus might represent the old men of Argos (Agamemnon) or the worshippers of Dionysus (Bacchae), so for the chorus the masks would offer some uniformity and set them apart from key characters on stage. Generally, masks were also a genre-marker, with distinct masks for comedy, tragedy and satyr play. Hope this helps!
Great video but would you ever consider turning down the music in the background a bit? Its kind of distracting and makes it hard to focus on what you’re saying.
I sooooo wish, at least docos are not polluted with sound effects, like music. It's irritating, it's interfering with the sound of the narrator, it is bloody Unnecessary!
It is a lovely video to show to my Greek Theatre students to use as an academic reference! Thank you!
You're welcome! Thanks for the lovely comment and sorry for the slow reply- my device didn't notify me. Let me know if you have any suggestions for future videos.
Will you share your lesson plan that you did please?
WOW thank you so much I was having such a hard time explaining it but you really made it clear! Thank you
No problem! You are welcome. Let me know if you have any suggestions for future videos 😊👩🏫
Could you do this video again, but have 3-15 of your friends sing/explain it to us?
Great, Dear Maria, the Chorus was moving and more than that, D A N C I N G ! Orchestra- the "round" thing- was where
the ΟΡΧΗΣΙΣ (DANCE) took place, as You just said. Renaissance Opera is a try for the Drama in a the New World.
A Greek friend, Nikephoros. (my humble opinion)
Thank you so much for this video! I'm doing an early modern play for my dissertation and it has a chorus in it which has really been baffling, so this helped a lot!
You're very welcome! Which play is it?
@@MillennialClassicist The Tragedy of Cleopatra by Samuel Daniels
@@ringdonuts8125 cool, if it is early modern then they may use a Roman tragedian Seneca to inspire their use of the chorus too. 😊 good luck on your assignment!
@@MillennialClassicist oh cool!
Thanks!
Makes so much sense. Bravo 👌👌
Thanks for this! I’m watching these videos to help with my drama exam coming up for Greek chorus. This video is great and really helps ☺️
Thanks for the lovely comment. I've not made anything new in a while because of work but should have more videos up in summer 😊👍 Good luck with your drama exam!
Thank you so much for this video ,Iam about to give a presentation on this topic ; helps me a lot .
You're welcome! Good luck with your presentation :)
THAT ... was actually super cool! I'm sitting here trying to broadening my understanding of how to write music with some new dimensions and I'm googling and video surfing for words and "antistrophe" led me here! I've heard a little about Greek drama way back (!) in school but we didn't care about it then and nor did the teachers ... It was more like "Old dead Greek stuff ... good riddance!". This video was much more alive and inspiring! :D
Some sick stuff you can do with grouping voices and instruments together or put them in contrast or ... and ... or ... hmmm! THANK YOU!
Love from India🇮🇳 i got an exam in upcoming month's and needed a brief explanation to it, due to health issues i couldn't join classes so your video helped me a lot❤️ thanks a lot Mam🙏
Brilliant, I liked that
Hello Ma'am i am a litrature Lecturer so need some help from you about Greek Tragedy. Especially the element of tragedy in stage play nad drama.
Please share me your instagram to have some conversation with you.
Hi thanks for commenting. Take a look at my video on Aristotle's Poetics for a good introduction to Greek tragedy.
hey, thank you. I'm on a strange hunt to hear anything and everything I possibly can of 'real' chorus music from tragedies. Any pointers would be deeply appreciated. It's a bit of an obsession at this point.
Hi, thanks for commenting and for your patience whilst I reply. If you look on the Pronomos Vase you can see the different instruments that would have been used in the theatre (I'll make a video on this in the next few months). Oxford University have a research project to ty and reconstruct the sound of Greek music: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/ancient-music-and-theology-network-0 Note that it would have most likely been different for comedy, because the only unmasked character in comedy would be the hetaira flute-girl, who would play a double reeded instrument like the aulos. Hope this helps!
Currenlty I am reading Lysistrata in a greek comedy course, there is a parados where the chorus comes in , what is a parados? I tried to search it but couldnt find anything.
Parados is when a chorus comes forward to give their speech or song to the audience. Part 2 of this video on my channel goes through parados and eisodos 😊👍
Oh that makes sense,Ike very time they appear or just the first one? Clearly I need to watch the whole second part 😂
Also where would recommend to learn more about Athenian comedy and Greek comedy?
Thank You again!!
@@danielpleitez-martinez7638 I'll be doing some comedy videos soon. Eisodos is their entrance, parodos is when they come forward. Either can happen multiple times 😊👍
Sounds good Thank You!
Did you read nietzsche's birth of tragedy?can you make videos explaining it more clearly in ancient context?
Thank you for this wonderful explanation!
You're very welcome, let me know if you have any suggestions for future videos. 👍
My english teacher told us to watch this but i cant concentrate so im just sat giving my dog some food
What a useless comment to make. But I guess you can only communicate with your dog, given your level of understanding. No, apologies for that! Your dog must be smarter than you for sure!
so essentially, there are a commentary group who sing and dance as well as pseak, are they part of the story or only comment?
Hi Daniel, That is generally correct. However, the chorus have different degrees of involvement in the story depending on the play. Euripides' choruses, for example, sometimes take a more prominent role such as the chorus of Trojan Women in Trojan Women. This is sometimes easy to spot through the titles of the play (which were given by later authors based on how prominent the chorus were) e.g. Aeschylus' Libation Bearers and Eumenides present the chorus to drive the plot through their interactions with key characters. Hope that helps!
Thank You
You are really really amazing thank you so much you have been so helpful
You are welcome! Thank you for the lovely comment. :)
nice way of explaiining
I have play...Doctor Faustus😍
Hello dear, thank you for your beautiful explanation but I wanna ask you why they look creepy and why they wear masks and stuff like that🤔
Hi, thanks for commenting and for your patience whilst I reply. The main cause of the masks would be so that their fixed expressions would be visible from the back of the theatre. Although in the fifth-century masks might have been more naturalistic, they became very exaggerated in the Roman era (1C BC). The masks were also a good way of distinguishing a demographic in the chorus, for example, the chorus might represent the old men of Argos (Agamemnon) or the worshippers of Dionysus (Bacchae), so for the chorus the masks would offer some uniformity and set them apart from key characters on stage. Generally, masks were also a genre-marker, with distinct masks for comedy, tragedy and satyr play. Hope this helps!
Omg my English teacher is so shit I needed this
Glad this helped! 👍
Great video but would you ever consider turning down the music in the background a bit? Its kind of distracting and makes it hard to focus on what you’re saying.
Will do on future videos as I've had that comment elsewhere 😊 thanks
@@MillennialClassicist thank you!😊
The music is very loud and distracting
Hi, Video is really helpful. Just a suggestion, Please don't use background music. It creates interruption.
Thanks and Best Wishes!
A very erudite and interesting exegesis. However, the music distracts. It's like you're being placed on hold by a corporation based in Hades.
partly agree. would be good to not have music or only bring it in during certain points. otherwise just lower the volume.
Dis anyone?
*lazybumdaniel * yea
Anyone else watching this In drama
yep..
I can't move my eyes from her face, because I'm fallen in love with her beautiful eyes 😍 . LoL 😅,but true
creep
Please rerecord without hip-hop background music. I'm only interested in hearing your voice.
I sooooo wish, at least docos are not polluted with sound effects, like music. It's irritating, it's interfering with the sound of the narrator, it is bloody Unnecessary!
A beautiful girl with a British accent who talks about tragedy. 😍
weird and inappropriate...
@@bluebellbeatnik4945 I think I was being flirtatious only.