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Nudity and Music in Anatolian Mythological Seduction Scenes and Iconographic Imagery
… This essay focuses the role of Anatolian music in erotic and sexual contexts — especially of its … function in mythological seduction scenes. In these scenes, music is employed as a means of enhancing erotic seduction. … music … Iconography … Seduction … Mythology … Music … Ancient music … Music history … Nudity and Music in …
Illusions of Grandeur: The Instruments of Daniel 3 Reconsidered
… orchestra as its first audience did. … 23466 … Ancient music … Bible … Biblical … Daniel (Book of) … Nebuchadnezzar … Ancient Instruments … Illusions of Grandeur: The Instruments …
Aristophanes’ Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern
… (Kurke 1992: 103). … 23468 … Aristophanes … Phrynichos … Music history … Ancient music … Athens … Ancient Greece … Greece … Aristophanes’ Phrynichos and the …
Aspects of Music Culture in the Land of Israel during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods: Sepphoris as a Case Study
… years of Hellenistic culture, manifested in language, art, music, cult and thought. Yet, despite and alongside the … Roman and Byzantine periods — as a case study. … 23469 … Ancient Israel … Israel … Byzantine … Hellenistic … Roman … Music history … Ancient music … Ancient Musical Practices … Aspects of Music …
Soothing Lyres and epôidai: Music Therapy and the Cases of Orpheus, Empedocles and David
… The psychagogic efficacy of music, namely its power to act on the soul in such a way as … characters and behaviors, and even health, is based in ancient Greek thought on a likeness between soul and musical … induced by it healed excessive emotions. … 23470 … Ancient music … Ancient … Greek … Ancient Greece … Music …
Sounds from under the Ashes: The Music of Cults and Mysteries in the Ancient Vesuvian Land
… with them a cultural heritage that included a pantheon and music. The sonorous horizon of the cities of Pompeii and … ash and lava. … 23471 … Roman … Vesuvius … Mount Vesuvius … Ancient music … Ancient Musical Practices … Cultural heritage … …
Ancient Music in the Modern Classroom
… The French musicologist Jacques Chailley devoted his professional career to the revival of medieval music and ancient theater and to the study of Greek music. Of his … was neither the first nor the last musicologist to treat ancient music as part of a general music-history survey. …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … conventions. The transcribers’ desire to imbue the ancient Jewish melody with contemporary decorum led them to … century. The fact that we have the transcription of such an ancient melody (even if through late and limited …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new bar in the musicological study of the piyyut . His insights on a … [i.e. the melody of She’eh ne’esar] is borrowed from an ancient melody.” Figure 9. Canon on the tune of “She’eh …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardic Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of … among various communities, there seems to be an underlying musical structure tying together all the documented versions …