ICONEA 2008 : proceedings of the International Conference of Near Eastern Archaeomusicology : held at the British Museum, December 4, 5 and 6, 2008
Conference papers and proceedings
vii, 209 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
637006343
Possessed by the Great Mother: music and trance in ancient Pompeii and in the popular tradition of southern Italy / Roberto Melini
New light on the Babylonian tonal system / Leon Crickmore
The ancient Mesopotamian sistrum and its references in cuneiform literature: the identification of the šem and meze / Uri Gabbay
Musical reconstruction of the Hurrian material by statistical analysis / David Halperin
Another look at alleged ancient bagpipes / Terence Mitchell
Playing in concert in the ancient Near East / Dominique Collon
A queen's orchestra at the court of Mari: a new perspective on the archaic instrumentarium in the third millennium BC / Myriam Marcetteau
Ancient Near Eastern and early Jewish traditions / Siam Bhayro
Bull lyres, silver lyres, silver pipes and animals in Sumer / Bo Lawergren
A Sumerian text in quantified archaeomusicology / Ernest McClain
Evidence and inference in texts of theory in the ancient Near East / Richard Dumbrill
A traveler's tales: observations on musical mobility in Mesopotamia and beyond / Piotr Michalowski
Musical ensembles in ancient Mesopotamia / Theo Krispijn
A new hypothesis for the elaboration of heptatonic scales and consequences in understanding their origins / Amine Beyhom
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