Improvisation in Rhapsodic Performance. From: Helios | Date: March 22, 2001| Author: Collins, Derek | COPYRIGHT 2001 Texas Tech University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Rhapsodes have received increasing attention in recent scholarship, (1) although there has still been no attempt to organize all of the evidence into a coherent whole (2)--a task that I do not wish to undertake here. Instead, in this essay I aim to continue a line of exploration concerning the performance of rhapsodes which has been hampered by an ancient and modern prejudice against their "creative" abilities. (3) To facilitate this, I shall reexamine the major evidence for how rh...

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