The contributions collected in this volume deal with the relation between Comedy and Music in
the Greek sense of art of the Muses. The volume offers an investigation on the metres and
rhythms of poetic texts on dance on sociological aspects on the psychagogical function of
music itself on the perceptions and theories that are transmitted to us from ancient sources.
In the various essays a central role is played by Aristophanes playwright and an expert music
critic animated by a negative prejudice towards the 'New Music' the poetic-musical revolution
that influenced the dithyramb and the nomos and then also the lyric sections of the tragedy.
