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Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the Ancient Near East
… instruments … Ancient Instruments … Near East … Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the Ancient …
The Ala-Instrument: its Identification and Role
… representations and a handful of material remains from ancient Mesopotamia. However, a precise identification … of the same name. For example, Anglo-Saxon hearpe , from which the word “harp” is derived, originally denoted a … iconographic and ethnographic. Examples of drum-making from various parts of the world are relevant, although no …
Musical Practices and Instruments in Late Bronze Age Ugarit (Syria)
… the eastern Mediterranean world may also be derived from it. Dated to the last centuries of the second millennium BCE, the evidence from Ugarit casts some light upon the poorly known history of …
Greek Epic and Kypriaka: Why “Cyprus Matters”
… power of the island’s “Hellenic” element is clear enough from the situation in the early Archaic period, when …
Aristophanes’ Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern
… style of life (and clothing) “consciously taken over from the East and embraced by a segment of the population to … and Euboea (Mazzarino 1989: 72–78, 227) — and borrowed from the Ionians, who were heavily influenced by their Lydian … 1992). The dominant ideology of the Athenian polis evolved from aristocratic to democratic; the Orient, contrasted with …
Aspects of Music Culture in the Land of Israel during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods: Sepphoris as a Case Study
… The Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods in the Land of Israel are defined, for the purpose of this study, from the last third of the fourth century BCE to the first … use is made of tools, theories and methodologies from these respective fields in an attempt to gain further …
Soothing Lyres and epôidai: Music Therapy and the Cases of Orpheus, Empedocles and David
… to notice at least since the time of the pre-Socratics. From many of the surviving fragments of their works we learn … 1932; Lippman 1963; Lambropoulou 1995–1996; Franklin 2002) from material aspects of human life to the kosmos . A strong … attribute of harmony” (trans. by Barker 1995). Beginning from such an affinity, Aristotle deals with the use of music …
Sounds from under the Ashes: The Music of Cults and Mysteries in the Ancient Vesuvian Land
… In the Roman period, the communities inhabiting the land dominated … its rich culture under layers of ash and lava. … 23471 … Roman … Vesuvius … Mount Vesuvius … Ancient music … Ancient … … Cultural heritage … Mediterranean culture … Sounds from under the Ashes: The Music of Cults and Mysteries in the …
Ancient Music in the Modern Classroom
… as part of a general music-history survey. Especially prominent in the 1950s and 1960s, the call to broaden the … example of musical notation available to scholars dated from 800 BCE; it employed cuneiform characters and was judged …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… in the field of the Ashkenazi liturgy. We quote from the introduction to the book: “Maier Levi bequeathed to … during the prayer services.” Recordings of a selection from Maier Levi’s transcriptions, performed by Cantor Amnon … Jewish Orphanage of Esslingen, November 10, 2019. From right to left: Dr. Geoffrey Goldberg (author), Ms. Jutta …