Sound of Byzantium : Byzantine musical instruments / authors, Antonios Botonakis, Nikos Maliaras, Christian Troelsgård ; editors, Antonios Botonakis, Merve Özkılıç.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Botonakis, Antonios, author, editor.

Troelsgård, C. (Christian), author.

Maliaras, Nikos, author.

Contributor:

Özkılıç, Merve, editor.

Koç Üniversitesi.

Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation.

Series:

Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları (Series) ; 272.

Koç University Press ; 272

GABAM studies ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musical instruments--Byzantine Empire--History.

Musical instruments.

Musical instruments--History--To 1500.

Music, Byzantine--History and criticism.

Music, Byzantine.

Music--Byzantine Empire--History and criticism.

Music.

Musical instruments in art.

Musical instruments in literature.

Art, Byzantine--Themes, motives.

Art, Byzantine.

Byzantine literature--Themes, motives.

Byzantine literature.

Byzantine Empire.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Physical Description:

xvi, 111 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Byzantine musical instruments

Place of Publication:

Sarıyer-İstanbul [Turkey] : KUP : Koç University, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies [GABAM], 2022.

Summary:

"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."--University of Chicago Press website.

Contents:

Preface / Engin Akyürek

Introduction / Antonios Botonakis, Merve Özkiliç

The iconography of musical instruments in Byzantine visual sources / Antonios Botonakis

Musical instruments in Byzantine literature / Christian Troelsgård

Ceremonial and military music and musical instruments for Byzantine emperors in the middle and late Byzantine periods / Nikos Maliaras

A dictionary of Byzantine musical instruments / prepared by Antonios Botonakis and illustrated by Ezgi Özbakkaloglu.

Notes:

"The documentation of the musical instruments of Byzantium is one of the least studied areas in the fields of art history and musicology due to the challenges presented by limited historical sources and the lack of surviving instruments, as well as written musical scores."--Introduction, page xiii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-107) and index.

ISBN:

9786057685858

6057685857

OCLC:

1276850137