Includes papers delivered at the International Workshop "The Study of Musical Performance in Antiquity: Archaeology and Written Sources," Nov. 6, 2015, La Sapienza, University of Rome. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Body and soul : the dangers of music and song in Syriac Christianity / Claudia Tavolieri. Introduction : The study of musical performance in antiquity / Agnes Garica-Ventura, Claudia Tavolieri and Lorenzo Verderame -- The first ancient Near Eastern written sources on musicians' activity and performance : the Ebla Archives--a glance at the 3rd millennium BCE Syrian evidence / Maria Vittoria Tonietti -- "The poor musician" in ancient Near Eastern texts and images / Regine Pruzsinszky -- Singing and singers in 2nd millennium Babylonia : a new look at selected texts and images / Dahlia Shehata -- Textual, iconographical, and archaeological evidence for the performance of ancient Egyptian music / Heidi Kopp-Junk -- Potential musical instructions in ancient Israel / Theodore W. Burgh -- Dancing myths : musical performances with mythological subjects from Greece to Etruria / Daniele F. Maras -- Performative aspects of music in sacred contexts of the western Greeks / Angela Bellia -- The aulos and the trumpet : music, gender and elites in Iberian culture (4th to 1st century BCE) / Raquel Jimenez Pasalodos and Peter/Pippa Holmes -- Clues of Roman soundscapes around Vesuvius : some case studies / Mirco Mungari -- Tibia multifora, multiforatilis, multiforabilis... : depictions of a "many-holed" tibia in written sources / Kamila Wys¿ucha -- Body and soul : the dangers of music and song in Syriac Christianity / Claudia Tavolieri.
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