Timothy J. Moore is John and Penelope Biggs Distinguished Professor of Classics at Washington University, St Louis. He is author of Artistry and Ideology: Livy's Vocabulary of Virtue (1989), The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience (1998), a translation of Terence's Phormio and numerous articles on Livy, Tibullus, Roman comedy, Petronius, ancient music and Japanese kyogen comedy. He has produced a website in which he sings songs of Plautus in their original rhythms (http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~timmoore/Recordings%20of%20Plautus/MoorePlautusRecordings.html). He has lectured widely in North America, Europe and China on topics including music archaeology, Western and Japanese comedy, Greek and Roman music, and analogies between Roman and American musical comedies. He also has extensive experience as a singer and as a performer in musical theatre. He has received fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the American Academy in Rome and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, and a Mellon Faculty Fellowship at Harvard University, Massachusetts.
Introduction
1. Tibiae and tibicines
2. Song
3. Dance
4. Melody and rhythm
5. Meters
6. Arrangement of verses and variation within the verse
7. Musical structure
8. Polymetry
9. Pseudolus
10. Adelphoe
Conclusion
Appendix I. The meters of Roman comedy
Appendix II. Characters and meters
Appendix III. Musical features by play
Appendix IV. Exceptions to the ABC pattern
Appendix V. Polymetric passages.
