The Sound of Byzantium: The Byzantine Musical Instruments
Language: English
Published by Koc University Press, Turkey, 2022
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- Hardcover
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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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- Title
- The Sound of Byzantium: The Byzantine Musical Instruments
- Author
- Botonakis, Antonios; Maliaras, Nikos; Troelsgard, Chriastian
- Publisher
- Koc University Press, Turkey
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- As new
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 6057685857
- ISBN 13
- 9786057685858
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 771 grams
- Dimensions
- 2.79 centimeters width by 21.59 centimeters height by 28.58 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- Archaeology, History
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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