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The Balaĝ Instrument and its Role in the Cult of Ancient Mesopotamia
… scholars understood the term balaĝ as a general word for musical instruments (Hartmann 1960: 57) or for stringed … was played. … 23462 … Instrument … Instrumental music … balag … Mesopotamia … Ancient … Ancient music … Music history … The Balaĝ Instrument and its Role in the Cult of …

The Ala-Instrument: its Identification and Role
… Concerning musical instruments, we are fortunate to have many terms, … died out in contemporary Iraq; thus comparisons with other musical cultures from around the world must be made. In … instruments … Ancient Instruments … Ancient music … Music history … The Ala-Instrument: its Identification and Role … …

Musical Practices and Instruments in Late Bronze Age Ugarit (Syria)
… provides a wide range of evidence for the reconstruction of musical practice during the Late Bronze Age, at the time of … evidence from Ugarit casts some light upon the poorly known history of ancient Near Eastern music in the span of time between third-millennium Sumer and …

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. … … Seduction … Mythology … Music … Ancient music … Music history … Nudity and Music in Anatolian Mythological …

Aristophanes’ Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern
… (Kurke 1992: 103). … 23468 … Aristophanes … Phrynichos … Music history … Ancient music … Athens … Ancient Greece … Greece … Aristophanes’ …

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 … time offers an opportunity to examine the development of music culture in a region that was inhabited by people of … Israel … Israel … Byzantine … Hellenistic … Roman … Music history … Ancient music … Ancient Musical Practices … …

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. … to treat ancient music as part of a general music-history survey. Especially prominent in the 1950s and 1960s, …

Traces of Jewish Musicians in the Writings of Lomazzo
… The discovery of traces of Jewish musicians in Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’Arte Della Pittura … would no doubt be of interest to historians of Jewish music as well as to art historians in general. Giovanni … Renaissance … Jewish music … Jewish music research … Music history … Traces of Jewish Musicians in the Writings of …

The Biblical NEBEL
… Ga’ôn in the ninth!), and therefore belonged to the history of exegesis. In the following we shall attempt to … and the state of research permit. … 9434 … Biblical … Music … Harp … Ancient Israel … Ancient music … Ancient Instruments … Ancient … Bible … The Biblical …

La musique juive dans l’Espagne médiévale
… 1492, doit être considerée comme une benediction pour 1'art musical péninsulaire. L'histoire et l'épigraphie nous … pays balkaniques et en Espagne. … Songs … 23131 … Jewish music … Medieval … Spain … Medieval Spain … Song … Sephardic Jewish people … Sephardic history … La musique juive dans l’Espagne médiévale … Higini …