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The Bergamasca: Some Jewish Links?
… idea had first been suggested by Eduard Birnbaum in his biography of Salamone Rossi (Birnbaum 1893: 31-32) and …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… surviving footage of spontaneous pre-Holocaust folk choreography. In the present brief contribution, I will cite just a …
The Balaĝ Instrument and its Role in the Cult of Ancient Mesopotamia
… to Kilmer, my understanding is that the textual and iconographical evidence demonstrate that originally the balaĝ was …
The Ala-Instrument: its Identification and Role
… drum), as depicted on several third-millennium-BCE iconographic sources. The giant drum that is depicted on the Gudea … in its cultic role. My methodology is philological, iconographic and ethnographic. Examples of drum-making from various parts of the …
Musical Practices and Instruments in Late Bronze Age Ugarit (Syria)
… rupture over such a long period and across such a large geographic space, while difficult to resist, is open to …
Nudity and Music in Anatolian Mythological Seduction Scenes and Iconographic Imagery
… erotic seduction. A number of cultic, sexual iconographic representations associated with musical instruments … be discussed. … 23465 … Anatolia … Anatolian music … Iconography … Seduction … Mythology … Music … Ancient music … … Music in Anatolian Mythological Seduction Scenes and Iconographic Imagery … Ora Brison …
Greek Epic and Kypriaka: Why “Cyprus Matters”
… world. Recent postcolonial scholarship has stressed the rapid “hybridity” of Cypriot material culture in the Iron …
Soothing Lyres and epôidai: Music Therapy and the Cases of Orpheus, Empedocles and David
… role in the making of the Greek man, and also with the therapeutic — and in no way ethic — effects of the aulos on … were carried out, as if they underwent ἰατρεία ‘medical therapy’ and κάθαρσις ‘purification’, since the music performed … Greece … Music theory … Aristotle … Philosophy … Music therapy … Soothing Lyres and epôidai: Music Therapy and the …
Ancient Music in the Modern Classroom
… as is famously known, the book devotes only several paragraphs to the first 39,000 years of music, dedicating some …
Remarks Concerning the Use of the Melograph in Ethnomusicological Studies
… The Melograph, by now, has become part and parcel of … and its promises, the time has come to discuss the Melograph in operation, the problems raised by the new musical … in which music can be examined with the aid of the Melograph. The Melograph has not only answered questions for …