A música em As Báquides, de Plauto: tradução e análise dos cantica

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, João Jorge da Silva [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/123146; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/27-04-2015/000824313.pdf
• topic: Literatura latina em prosa; Comedia; Metrica e ritmo; Poesia; Expressionismo na literatura; Latin prose literature

Titus Maccius Plautus, or simply Plautus, was one of the most important playwrights in antiquity. His plays have been translated into several languages over time and have been a source of inspiration for writers such as Shakespeare and Molière, and for artistic movements such as the Italian Commedia Dell'Arte. Although he was greatly influenced by the Greek New Comedy playwrights, especially by Menander (as it occurs in Bacchides, adapted from Menander's Δὶς ἐξαπατῶν (Dis Exapaton), whose title can be roughly translated as Twice a Swindler) just like another renowned Latin playwright, Publius Terentius Afer, or Terentius, plautine comedies show numerous differences when compared to their Greek counterparts. One of them in particular, which is the one this work seeks to study, is the constant presence of song in great part of their performances, played with or without musical accompaniment: the so-called cantica, in which the instrument used was the tibia, the latin version of the Greek αὐλός, as well as the use of various different meters for the sung parts, in contrast with the ones that are merely spoken. This work has as its primary objective to present a translation in verse of the cantica present in the play Bacchides, by Plautus, as well as to provide an analysis of the poetic expressiveness in the meters used in their making, and of the purpose and also of the effects intended by the author with the usage of such meters