Music in Antiquity : : The Near East and the Mediterranean /

Music in Antiquity : : The Near East and the Mediterranean / / ed. by Joan Goodnick Westenholz, Yossi Maurey, Edwin Seroussi.

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Music was one component of the cultural continuum that developed in the contiguous civilizations of the ancient Near East and of Greece and Rome. This book covers the range and gamut of this symbiosis, as well as scrutinizes archeological findings, texts, and iconographical materials in specific geo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Art and Architecture 2000-2014 (EN)
MitwirkendeR:
Bayer, Bathja,
Brison, Ora,
Caubet, Annie,
De Simone, Mariella,
Draffkorn Kilmer, Anne,
Franklin, John Curtis,
Gabbay, Uri,
Lesley, Michael,
Maurey, Yossi,
Melini, Roberto,
Mirelman, Sam,
Provenza, Antonietta,
Shehata, Dahlia,
Waner, Mira,
HerausgeberIn:
Goodnick Westenholz, Joan,
Maurey, Yossi,
Seroussi, Edwin,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (375 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • I. Prologue
  • A Brief Account of the Development of the Field of Music Archaeology
  • II. Studies
  • The Mesopotamian Theory of Music and the Ugarit Notation – A Reexamination
  • Mesopotamian Music Theory Since 1977
  • Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the Ancient Near East
  • The Balaĝ Instrument and Its Role in the Cult of Ancient Mesopotamia
  • The Ala-Instrument: Its Identification and Role
  • Musical Practices and Instruments in Late Bronze Age Ugarit (Syria)
  • Nudity and Music in Anatolian Mythological Seduction Scenes and Iconographic Imagery
  • Illusions of Grandeur: The Instruments of Daniel 3 Reconsidered
  • Greek Epic and Kypriaka: Why “Cyprus Matters”
  • Aristophanes’ Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern
  • Aspects of Music Culture in the Land of Israel during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods: Sepphoris as a Case Study
  • Soothing Lyres and epodai: Music Therapy and the Cases of Orpheus, Empedocles and David
  • Sounds from under the Ashes: The Music of Cults and Mysteries in the Ancient Vesuvian Land
  • III. Epilogue
  • Ancient Music in the Modern Classroom

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