Music from ancient Mero͡ : reconstructing Queen Amanishakheto's auloi / edited by Susanne Gänsicke and Stefan Hagel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gänsicke, Susanne, editor, author.

Hagel, Stefan, editor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musical instruments, Ancient--Sudan--Meroe (Extinct city).

Musical instruments, Ancient.

Musical instruments, Ancient--Greece.

Aulos--Sudan--Meroe (Extinct city).

Aulos.

Nubians--Sudan--Meroe (Extinct city)--Antiquities.

Nubians.

Meroe (Extinct city).

Physical Description:

xi, 296 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbus, GA : Lockwood Press, 2026.

Summary:

"The story of reconstructing the auloi (double-piped flutes) of Meroe from a jumble of fragments into six auloi with twelve pipes. The reconstruction took twelve years, beginning in 2013. With this volume, we present a contextualized narrative of discovery, detailed documentation of the cache as we have analyzed it, and the technical and musical interpretations of these pipes. The complex nature of the material and its degradation necessarily impose limitations, and there remain gaps in our understanding; also, not all elements have survived"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Lawrence Berman

Perspectives / Rita Freed, Darcy Kuronen, Matthew Siegal

Preface and acknowledgments / Susanne Gänsicke, Stefan Hagel

1. Ancient Doublepipes / Stefan Hagel

1.1. An Instrument of Its Own Kind

1.2. Construction

2. The Context: Meroë / Denise Doxey

2.1. The Site of Mero͡

2.2. Queen Amanishakheto

2.3. Recovering the Auloi

2.4. Auloi and Dionysus in Kush

3. Research history / Stefan Hagel

3.1. Aulos Research

3.2. The Meroë Auloi Project

4. Conservation / Susanne Gänsicke

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Between 1921 and 2013

4.3. Documentation and Rehousing

4.4. Condition of the Different Materials

4.5. Conservation

5. Description of the Corpus / Stefan Hagel, Susanne Gänsicke

5.1. Materials

5.2. Parts

5.3. Catalogue of the Larger Fragments / Stefan Hagel. Olga Sutkowska

6. Material Analysis / Richard Newman, Susanne Gänsicke, Joel Stephenson, Caroline Cartwright, Daniel Kirby

6.1. Introduction / Richard Newman, Susanne Gänsicke

6.2. X-radiography / Susanne Gänsicke, Richard Newman

6.3. Alloy Analysis / Richard Newman

6.4. Metallography / Richard Newman, Susanne Gänsicke

6.5. Corrosion Analysis / Richard Newman, Susanne Gänsicke

6.6. Radiocarbon Dating / Richard Newman

6.7. Wood Analysis / Caroline Cartwright

6.8. Fiber Analysis / Joel Stephenson

6.9. Bone Identification: Peptide Mass Fingerprinting Analysis (PMF) / Daniel Kirby, Richard Newman

6.10. Observations on Manufacturing Techniques / Susanne Gänsicke

7. Reconstruction and Interpretation / Stefan Hagel

7.1. The Slender Pipes

7.2. The Long Pipes

7.3. Overblowing

7.4. Production and Destruction

7.5. Summary

7.6. Naming the Instruments?

7.7. Methodological Considerations

7.8. Summary of Proposed Arrangements

8. Garstang's Auloi / Stefan Hagel

9. Conclusion: A Tale of the Queen's Pipes / Stefan Hagel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-291) and index.

Other Format:

Online version Music from ancient Africa

ISBN:

9781957454740

1957454741

OCLC:

1552085039

Publisher Number:

90104447649