Readings on the Modern Tradition of Oral Recitation of Greek and Latin:
Bryn Mawr Classical Review of Stephen Daitz's reading of Books I-VI of the Illiad
The Musical Pitch Accents in Greek -- Essay and discussion by Middlebury professor emeritus William Harris
Societies, Recitors, Conferences, Competitions, etc.
New York Classical Club's Contest in the Oral reading of Latin and Greek
SORGLL -- Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature. Stephen G. Daitz, president. Site contains Daitz's reading of lines1-52 of the Illiad and Sonkowsky's lines 1-49 of the Aeneid.
Oral Tradition -- an international forum for scholarly discussion, as well as maintaining one series of books and recently founded another. The Teaching Oral Traditions volume, published by the Modern Language Association in late 1998, consists of 34 brief essays by specialists from numerous different fields.
Online Audio Files:
Illiad, Book I (57m 3s), Stanley Lombardo
Illiad 18.39-96, (Catalogue of Nereids, dialogue between Thetis and Achilles ), Stefan Hagel
Aischylos, Agamemnon 503-537, (Messenger arriving at Argos), Stefan Hagel
Plato, Symposion 172f (The initial narration), Stefan Hagel
Aeneid, Book 4, Wilfried Stoh
Homer In Performance -- ongoing project at Harvard Classics, recitations and commentary by Gregory Nagy. Files not working as of 8/31/02.
Bibliography
Vox Graeca: A Guide to the Pronunciation of Classical Greek, by William Sidney Allen (October 1987).
Vox Latina: A Guide to the Pronunciation of Classical Latin, by William Sidney AllenG. Danek, 'Singing Homer'. Überlegungen zu Sprechintonation und Epengesang, Wiener Humanistische Blätter 31 (1989), 1-15.
S. Hagel, Zu den Konstituenten des griechischen Hexameters, Wiener Studien 107/108 (1994), 77-108.
The Prosody of Greek Speech, by A. M. Devine and L. D. Stephens, New York / Oxford 1994.
G. Danek / S. Hagel, Homer-Singen, Wiener Humanistische Blätter (1995), 5-20.
Homeric Singing
Demodokos' song about Ares and Aphrodite: Od. 8, 267-366 -- Danek & Hagel.