The Sound of Greek?

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Trustees of Boston University The Sound of Greek? Author(s): Gareth Morgan Source: Arion, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Winter, 1967), pp. 547-548 Published by: Trustees of Boston University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20163107 . Accessed: 12/06/2014 18:36 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Trustees of Boston University is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Arion. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 62.122.79.78 on Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:36:04 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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The Sound of Greek?Author(s): Gareth MorganSource: Arion, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Winter, 1967), pp. 547-548Published by: Trustees of Boston UniversityStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20163107 .

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The merits of The Sound of Greek are so great, and Pro fessor Sonkowsky's review so rightly complimentary, that one hesitates to sound a sour note. The fact remains that the book would have been better without the record; and tibat the readings?which so many people wfll take as the touchstone of the diesis?are of a distressingly robotic tedium calculated to disperse any Greek dinner party between one puU of the beaker and the next.

The reason Ues in the complete neglect by this performer (and by many other advocates of tibe revival of tonic pro nunciation) of clause- and sentence-intonation. We need not be surprised that there is no mention of this in ancient gram marians. It is the hardest part of phonetics to study without modern equipment. Textbooks of English phonetics are stfll

appearing with no treatment of the subject, even though it is

acknowledged as one of the greatest difficulties in the learn

ing of a new language. We cannot know for certain the exact shape of Greek

sentence-intonation, but we can at least guess that it was not too far from the general European pattern. An intonation

diagram for the first two Unes of the Odyssey in normal pro nunciation might be as shown at A, though there are many possible variations. Professor Stanford's performance, based

entirely on the tonic values of the individual words?aU that was investigated by the ancient grammarians?is shown at B.

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The summation of these, shown at C, is a more realistic

picture of an epic performance, and is capable of far more Ufe and poetry.

The Odyssey was not recited to an ecclesiastic chant any more than modern Greek heroic poetry is so performed. Demodocus' lyre was not used to set an immutable pitch any more than the modern ud and lyra, but to provide a rhytiimic framework and a counterpoint for die real business of emo tion and emphasis.

Gareth Morgan

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