Research Catalog

Title

The study of musical performance in antiquity : archaeology and written sources / edited by Agnès Garcia-Ventura, Claudia Tavolieri and Lorenzo Verderame.

Publication

• Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Garcia-Ventura, Agnès
• Tavolieri, Claudia
• Verderame, L. (Lorenzo)

Description

xii, 260 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Subject

• To 1500
• Music > Performance > History > To 1500 > Sources
• Music > Performance > History > To 1500 > Congresses
• Music > Performance
• Antike
• Aufführung
• Musik
• Musikalische Aufführungspraxis
• Musikalische Ikonographie
• Musikarchäologie
• Quelle
• Alte Welt

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.
• Sources.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Includes papers delivered at the International Workshop "The Study of Musical Performance in Antiquity: Archaeology and Written Sources," Nov. 6, 2015, La Sapienza, University of Rome.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 1527506584
• 9781527506589

LCCN

99976378598

OCLC

• on1020000785
• 1020000785
• SCSB-9051378

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library