Sound of Byzantium - Byzantine Musical Instruments
Language: English
Published by Koc Üniversitesi Stavros Niarchos Vakfi Gec Antik Cag ve Bizans Arastirmalari Merkezi, Istanbul, 2022
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Essays, imagery, and an illustrated dictionary for the instruments of Byzantine era. More than one hundred color plates accompany essays on representations of musical instruments in Byzantine iconography and literature ans account for their uses in state ceremonies of the Middle and Late Byzantine periods. The contributors explore the musical instruments in Byzantine sources and evaluate their importance for specific themes in Byzantine traditions. Innovative and insightful, this comprehensive volume also contains a dictionary of musical instruments, accompanied by original drawings specially prepared for this publication. Editors: Translator: 113 pages.
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- Title
- Sound of Byzantium - Byzantine Musical Instruments
- Author
- Botonakis, Antonios; Maliaras, Nikos; Troelsgard, Christian
- Publisher
- Koc Üniversitesi Stavros Niarchos Vakfi Gec Antik Cag ve Bizans Arastirmalari Merkezi, Istanbul
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 6057685857
- ISBN 13
- 9786057685858
- Seller catalogs
- Byzantine Studies
More than one hundred color plates accompany essays on representations of musical instruments in Byzantine iconography and literature and account for their uses in state ceremonies of the Middle and Late Byzantine periods. The contributors explore the musical instruments in Byzantine sources and evaluate their importance for specific themes in Byzantine traditions. Innovative and insightful, this comprehensive volume also contains a dictionary of musical instruments, accompanied by original drawings specially prepared for this publication.
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About the Author
Christian Troelsgård is associate professor of Greek and Latin philology at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
Merve Özkılıç is an archaeologist and an editor and project coordinator at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (GABAM) at Koç University in Istanbul.
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