The Study of Musical Performance in Antiquity: Archaeology and Written Sources (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781527506589)

This collection of eleven essays provides the reader with some valuable insights into the richness of sources dealing with music and musical performance scattered over 3000 years and covering a wide range of geographies, from Syria to Iberia, through Greece and Rome. The volume, then, offers a series of examinations of literary data and materials from different areas of the Classical World and the Near East in ancient times and in late Antiquity, examined both synchronically and diachronically, in some cases in dialogue with one another.

This broad treatment makes this collection of interest to historians, archaeologists, philologists and musicians, providing them with a multi-faceted volume which guides them towards a fuller understanding of ancient societies and which heightens the awareness of the importance of music as a transversal phenomenon.

Author: Agnès Garcia Ventura
ISBN-10: 1527506584
ISBN-13: 9781527506589
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 03/19/2018
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.60w x 0.80d