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Sound of Byzantium : Byzantine musical instruments
- Title
- Sound of Byzantium : Byzantine musical instruments / authors, Antonios Botonakis, Nikos Maliaras, Christian Troelsgård ; editors, Antonios Botonakis, Merve Özkılıç.
- Author
- Botonakis, Antonios
- Publication
- Sarıyer-İstanbul [Turkey] : KUP : Koç University, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies [GABAM], 2022.
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- Description
- xvi, 111 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm.
- Summary
- "More than one hundred color plates accompany essays on representations of musical instruments in Byzantine iconography and literature and account for their uses in state ceremonies of the Middle and Late Byzantine periods. The contributors explore the musical instruments in Byzantine sources and evaluate their importance for specific themes in Byzantine traditions. Innovative and insightful, this comprehensive volume also contains a dictionary of musical instruments, accompanied by original drawings specially prepared for this publication."--University of Chicago Press website.
- Series Statement
- Koç University Press ; 272
- GABAM studies ; 7
- Uniform Title
- Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları (Series) ; 272.
- Alternative Title
- Byzantine musical instruments
- Subject
- To 1500
- Musical instruments > Byzantine Empire > History
- Musical instruments > History > To 1500
- Music, Byzantine > History and criticism
- Music > Byzantine Empire > History and criticism
- Musical instruments in art
- Musical instruments in literature
- Art, Byzantine > Themes, motives
- Byzantine literature > Themes, motives
- Art, Byzantine > Themes, motives
- Music
- Music, Byzantine
- Musical instruments
- Musical instruments in art
- Musical instruments in literature
- Byzantine Empire
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Note
- "The documentation of the musical instruments of Byzantium is one of the least studied areas in the fields of art history and musicology due to the challenges presented by limited historical sources and the lack of surviving instruments, as well as written musical scores."--Introduction, page xiii.
- "© GABAM, 2021."--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-107) and index.
- Contents
- Preface / Engin Akyürek -- Introduction / Antonios Botonakis, Merve Özkiliç -- The iconography of musical instruments in Byzantine visual sources / Antonios Botonakis -- Musical instruments in Byzantine literature / Christian Troelsgård -- Ceremonial and military music and musical instruments for Byzantine emperors in the middle and late Byzantine periods / Nikos Maliaras -- A dictionary of Byzantine musical instruments / prepared by Antonios Botonakis and illustrated by Ezgi Özbakkaloglu.
- ISBN
- 9786057685858
- 6057685857
- LCCN
- 2023360790
- OCLC
- on1276850137
- 1276850137
- SCSB-14519919
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library