Aural architecture in Byzantium : music, acoustics, and ritual / edited by Bissera V. Pentcheva.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pentcheva, Bissera V., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orthodox Eastern Church--Liturgy.

Orthodox Eastern Church.

Liturgics.

Architectural acoustics.

Architecture, Byzantine.

Music, Byzantine.

Physical Description:

xiii, 258 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Contents:

Aural architecture in Jerusalem, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria / Peter Jeffery

The great outdoors : liturgical encounters with the early medieval Armenian church / Christina Maranci

Byzantine chant notation : written documents in an aural tradition / Christian Troelsgård

Understanding liturgy : the Byzantine liturgical commentaries / Walter D. Ray

Christ's all-seeing eye in the dome / Ravinder S. Binning

Transfigured : mosaic and liturgy at Nea Moni / Lora Webb

We who musically represent the cherubim / Laura Steenberge

- Spatiality, embodiment, and agency in ekphraseis of church buildings / Ruth Webb

Acoustics of Hgia Sophia : a scientific approach to the humanities and sacred space / Wieslaw Woszcyk

Live auralization of Cappella Romana at the Bing Concert Hall, Standford University / Jonathan S. Abel and Kurt Jamers Werner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-247) and index.

ISBN:

9781472485151

1472485157

OCLC:

962234674

Publisher Number:

99975430742