Music plays an inportant role in connection to Latin literature:

There are

• mythological texts which describe the origin of a musical instrument (e.g. the episode "Pan and Syrinx" in Ovid's "Metamorphoses")
• narrative texts which uses the description of music for the characterization of a person (e.g. Achilles playing the lyra in the "Ilias Latina" - like in Homer's "Iliad")
• Latin texts as lyrics of vocal music (e.g. in Vivaldi's "Sileant Zephyri" or Mozart's "Laudate dominum")
• Latin texts dealing with the role / importance of music (e.g. Johannes Tinctoris).

In our third module "MUSIC" we will have a look on several texts of this kind.

Lege, audi, laetaris!