UID:
almahu_9949386394702882
Format:
1 online resource (221 pages) :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9781000210323
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1000210324
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9781000210309
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1000210308
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9781000210316
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1000210316
,
9781003042006
,
1003042007
Series Statement:
Routledge research in music
Content:
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.
Note:
Introduction -- Types of cultic activity and the music associated with them, 1 -- Types of cultic activity and the music associated with them, 2 -- Musical media, 1: the human voice, chordophones and aerophones -- Musical media, 2: membranophones (drums) and idiophones -- Musical media, 3: groups and ensembles; sanctity and divinisation; organisation and administration -- Approaching the musical sound-world.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Smith, John Arthur. Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient near East. Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, ©2020 ISBN 9780367486334
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003042006
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003042006
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