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The Balaĝ Instrument and its Role in the Cult of Ancient Mesopotamia
… use of the resonator also as a drum, but rather due to the cultic environment and circumstances in which the … … Music history … The Balaĝ Instrument and its Role in the Cult of Ancient Mesopotamia … Uri Gabbay …
The Ala-Instrument: its Identification and Role
… an attempt will be made to examine the instrument in its cultic role. My methodology is philological, iconographic … in contemporary Iraq; thus comparisons with other musical cultures from around the world must be made. In making …
Musical Practices and Instruments in Late Bronze Age Ugarit (Syria)
… and the Amorite kingdoms of Syria and Palestine. Cultural associations with the eastern Mediterranean world … period and across such a large geographic space, while difficult to resist, is open to frustration. … 23464 … Bronze Age …
Nudity and Music in Anatolian Mythological Seduction Scenes and Iconographic Imagery
… as a means of enhancing erotic seduction. A number of cultic, sexual iconographic representations associated with …
Greek Epic and Kypriaka: Why “Cyprus Matters”
… has stressed the rapid “hybridity” of Cypriot material culture in the Iron Age; immigrants included Minoan and … be underestimated (Sherratt 1992; Knapp 2008). Mycenaean cultural features did however endure and evolve within this … Amathus, apparently the island’s stronghold of Eteocypriot culture, bore Greek names (Gjerstad 1948: 430, 475 n. 5). … …
Aristophanes’ Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern
… of archaic Athens’ receptivity to the Eastern lifestyle and culture. The insistence of scholars on reading the earlier …
Aspects of Music Culture in the Land of Israel during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods: Sepphoris as a Case Study
… CE. This period is noted by significant historical and cultural changes that brought to the region a thousand years of Hellenistic culture, manifested in language, art, music, cult and thought. Yet, despite and alongside the changes, a …
Sounds from under the Ashes: The Music of Cults and Mysteries in the Ancient Vesuvian Land
… Sea in quest for new lands to settle, bringing with them a cultural heritage that included a pantheon and music. The … erupted, sealing the Vesuvian area along with its rich culture under layers of ash and lava. … 23471 … Roman … … Vesuvius … Ancient music … Ancient Musical Practices … Cultural heritage … Mediterranean culture … Sounds from …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… Goldberg (author), Ms. Jutta Bogdahn-Klotz (Esslingen Cultural Office), Dr. Georg Woetzer (Head of the Friends of Jewish Culture in Esslingen and organizer of the event) and Prof. …
Traces of Jewish Musicians in the Writings of Lomazzo
… mentioning their sources. It is naturally very difficult to determine the origin of these traditions since we …