Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East Routledge Research in Music Series
Auteur : Smith John Arthur
Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East presents the first extended discussion of the relationship between music and cultic worship in ancient western Asia. The book covers ancient Israel and Judah, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Elam, and ancient Egypt, focusing on the period from approximately 3000 BCE to around 586 BCE. This wide-ranging book brings together insights from ancient archaeological, iconographic, written, and musical sources, as well as from modern scholarship. Through careful analysis, comparison, and evaluation of those sources, the author builds a picture of a world where religious culture was predominant and where music was intrinsic to common cultic activity.
1. Introduction; 2.Types of cultic activity and the music associated with them, 1; 3. Types of cultic activity and the music associated with them, 2; 4. Musical media, 1; 5. Musical media, 2: membranophones (drums) and idiophones; 6. Musical media, 3: groups and ensembles; sanctity and divinisation; organisation and administration; 7. Approaching the musical sound-world
John Arthur Smith was an independent scholar and organist based in Norway. He was the author of Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (Ashgate, 2011), and had published numerous journal articles, book chapters, and articles in reference works.
Date de parution : 05-2022
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 11-2020
15.6x23.4 cm
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Mots-clés :
Plucked String Instruments; ancient music; Eighth Century Bce; early music; Ramesses III; music in the ancient world; Jerusalem Temple; music in the ancient near east; Hand Drums; Ancient Near East; Medinet Habu; Near Eastern Studies; Tuning Patterns; Ancient history; LEB; Ancient cultures; IIA; musicology; Sacred Room; music history; Number Pair; Ancient Levant; Natural Horns; Ancient Anatolia; Musical Media; Ancient Egypt; Iron Age Ii; Ancient Mesopotamia; Transverse Flutes; Egyptology; Flute; Mesopotamian music; Standing Stones; Egyptian music; Octave Species; organology; Suspension Loop; archaeomusicology; Babylonian Tablets; ancient musical instruments; Victory Song; music and religion; Silver Trumpet; music and cult; Blowing End; cultic music; Hymnic Text; ancient religions; Late Bronze Age; music and ritual; Classical Studies; archaeology; ancient archaeological; ancient western Asia's cultic worship; ancient western Asia's music; religious culture