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The study of musical performance in antiquity : archaeology and written sources /

This collection of eleven essays provides the reader with some valuable insights into the richness of sources dealing with music and musical performance scattered over 3000 years and covering a wide range of geographies, from Syria to Iberia, through Greece and Rome. The volume, then, offers a serie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Garcia-Ventura, Agnès (Editor ), Tavolieri, Claudia (Editor ), Verderame, L. (Lorenzo) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / Eleonora Rocconi
  • Introduction : The study of musical performance in antiquity / Agnès Garica-Ventura, Claudia Tavolieri and Lorenzo Verderame
  • The first ancient Near Eastern written sources on musicians' activity and performance : the Ebla Archives--a glance at the 3rd millennium BCE Syrian evidence / Maria Vittoria Tonietti
  • "The poor musician" in ancient Near Eastern texts and images / Regine Pruzsinszky
  • Singing and singers in 2nd millennium Babylonia : a new look at selected texts and images / Dahlia Shehata
  • Textual, iconographical, and archaeological evidence for the performance of ancient Egyptian music / Heidi Köpp-Junk
  • Potential musical instructions in ancient Israel / Theodore W. Burgh
  • Dancing myths : musical performances with mythological subjects from Greece to Etruria / Daniele F. Maras
  • Performative aspects of music in sacred contexts of the western Greeks / Angela Bellia
  • The aulos and the trumpet : music, gender and elites in Iberian culture (4th to 1st century BCE) / Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos and Peter/Pippa Holmes
  • Clues of Roman soundscapes around Vesuvius : some case studies / Mirco Mungari
  • Tibia multifora, multiforatilis, multiforabilis ... : depictions of a "many-holed" tibia in written sources / Kamila Wysłucha
  • Body and soul : the dangers of music and song in Syriac Christianity / Claudia Tavolieri.