Download or read book Ancient Musical Instruments of Western Asia in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities the British Museum written by Joan Rimmer and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Musical Instruments of Western Asia in the Departmen written by Joan Rimmer and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Musical Instruments of Western Asia written by Joan Rimmer and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Musical Instruments of Western Asia in the Departement of Western Asiatic Antiquities the British Museum written by Joan Rimmer and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Musical Instruments of Western Asia in the British Museum written by Joan Rimmer and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joan Rimmer Ancient Musical Instruments of Western Asia in the British Museum recension written by Marcelle Duchesne-Guillemin and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece written by Martha Maas and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No ancient culture has left us more tantalizing glimpses of its music than that of the Greeks, whose art and literature continually speak to us of the role of music, its power, and its significance to their society. In this book two scholars--one of music and one of classics--join together to explore the musical life of ancient Greece, focusing on the Greek stringed instruments and, in particular, on the all-important lyre family. Book jacket.
Download or read book The Aulos in Classical and Late Antiquity Acculturation Diffusion and Syncretism in Socio Musical Processes of the Mediterranean written by Juan Sebastián Correa Cáceres and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aulos, an extinct musical instrument consisting of a cylindrical-bore pipe with finger holes and a double reed for a mouthpiece, was a very popular wind instrument during antiquity (c.1000 BC-AD 600). Through a comprehensive analysis of written, archaeological, and iconographic sources, this book presents a holistic view of this musical instrument, its past, and its consequential history. This study is further substantiated by ethnographic data from Sardinia and Egypt, where the launeddas and the arghul were explored respectively. A new understanding of the history of the aulos is presented through the establishment of parallels between past and contemporary music-related practices.
Download or read book Listening to the Artifacts written by Theodore W. Burgh and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-05-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burgh examines the ways that music shaped the culture of ancient Israel/Palestine. >
Download or read book The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East written by Richard J. Dumbrill and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This volume is a massive leap forward over any previous synthesis of the subject and includes at the very minimum so much information that its academic and scientific value is self evident. The freshness and profundity of Dumbrill's approach to the subject exceeds anything attempted before. 'The mythology of ancient Mesopotamia proves readable as tonal allegory when its numerology is decoded as tuning theory. By the third millennium BC both pentatonic and heptatonic tunings were quantified throughout the entire 12-tone gamut. Richard Dumbrill has documented the massive empirical experience with strings and pipes that makes this early musicalization of the universe believable.' The volume consists in 4 parts with foreword by Prof. Ernest McClain. The first is about the decipherment, translation and interpretation of the few theoretical cuneiform texts dating from the Old Babylonian period, about 2000 BC, to Neo Assyrian up to the mid first millennium BC. Dumbrill undertakes comparative analyses and criticism of various interpretations having preceded his own and introduces new material. The second part is about the Hurrian hymns, the earliest music ever written, circa 1400 BC, and are produced in their integrality. Attempts to the interpretation of Hymn H.6 are compared and followed by Dumbrill's methodology and interpretation. Each fragment of the collection is analyzed separately. The part concludes with statistical analyses attempting at the reconstruction of some Hurrian rules of composition. The third part consists in the organology with relevant philology and is the largest collection of the Mesopotamian instrumentarium. The last part is a unique lexicon of all known Mesopotamian terminology, with quotation of texts in which the philology appears. The book had been previously published under the title of 'The Musicology and Organology of the Ancient Near East' and now appears under its new title.
Download or read book Musical Instruments in the Metropolitan Museum written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Cultural History of the Arabic Language written by Sharron Gu and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of literary Arabic describes the evolution of Arabic poetry and prose in the context of music, ritual performance, the arts and architecture. The thousands-of-years-old language is perhaps more highly developed and refined than any other on earth. This book focuses on what is unique about Arabic compared to other major languages of the world (Greek, Latin, Hebrew, English and Spanish) and how the distinct characteristics of Arabic took shape at various points in its history. The book provides a cultural background for understanding social and political institutions and religious beliefs--more influenced by the rhythms and depths of poetic language than other cultures--in the Middle East today.
Download or read book Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia written by Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the visual and tactile experience of small-scale figurines, Greeks and Babylonians negotiated a hybrid, cross-cultural society in Hellenistic Mesopotamia.
Download or read book The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture written by Janet Sturman and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 5212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture presents key concepts in the study of music in its cultural context and provides an introduction to the discipline of ethnomusicology, its methods, concerns, and its contributions to knowledge and understanding of the world′s musical cultures, styles, and practices. The diverse voices of contributors to this encyclopedia confirm ethnomusicology′s fundamental ethos of inclusion and respect for diversity. Combined, the multiplicity of topics and approaches are presented in an easy-to-search A-Z format and offer a fresh perspective on the field and the subject of music in culture. Key features include: Approximately 730 signed articles, authored by prominent scholars, are arranged A-to-Z and published in a choice of print or electronic editions Pedagogical elements include Further Readings and Cross References to conclude each article and a Reader’s Guide in the front matter organizing entries by broad topical or thematic areas Back matter includes an annotated Resource Guide to further research (journals, books, and associations), an appendix listing notable archives, libraries, and museums, and a detailed Index The Index, Reader’s Guide themes, and Cross References combine for thorough search-and-browse capabilities in the electronic edition
Download or read book Sounds of the Silk Road written by Mitchell Clark and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The companion volume to an exhibit of the same name at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston from July 2005 to January 2006 illustrates and describes the Museum's collection of instruments from Korea south to Java and west to Turkey, along with some loaned by local organizations. Clark, a researcher at the Museum's Department of Musical Instruments, includes notes on the pieces, a map, a glossary of musical terms, and lists of further reading and suggested listening. Annotation 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book The Harold E Cook Collection of Musical Instruments written by Jackson Hill and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a complete catalog of the Harold E. Cook Collection, now at Bucknell University, a description of the most outstanding examples, a discussion of the classification of musical instruments, a history of the collection, and photographs of 72 of the instruments.
Download or read book Archaeological History Of The Ancient Middle East written by Jack Finegan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to give a connected account of what happened in the ancient Middle East, primarily on the basis of the records and monuments that have been recovered through the work of modem archaeology. The Middle East is defined as extending from the western border of Egypt (20 degrees E) to the eastern border of Iran (60 degrees E),
