The Sound of Byzantium: The Byzantine Musical Instruments

Botonakis, Antonios; Maliaras, Nikos; Troelsgard, Chriastian

ISBN 10: 6057685857 / ISBN 13: 9786057685858

Published by Koc University Press, Turkey, 2022

About this Item

A pristine, unread copy of this essential, groundbreaking organological and iconographical survey of musical instruments in the Byzantine world. Published by Koç University Press, this volume beautifully merges musicology with art history, making it an invaluable addition to any library dedicated to medieval music, ethnomusicology, or Byzantine visual culture.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sound of Byzantium: The Byzantine Musical Instruments
• Publisher: Koc University Press, Turkey
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 6057685857
• ISBN 13: 9786057685858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dimensions: 2.79W x 21.59H x 28.58D centimeters 2.79 centimeters width by 21.59 centimeters height by 28.58 centimeters depth
• Weight: 771 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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  • History

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Synopsis

Essays, imagery, and an illustrated dictionary for the instruments of the Byzantine era. 

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.

About the Authors

Antonios Botonakis is a musicologist, a postdoctoral researcher at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (GABAM) at Koç University in Istanbul, and a faculty member at Hellenic Mediterranean University in Greece.

Christian Troelsgċrd 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.