Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East

ISBN-13: 9780367486334 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 194 str.

John Arthur Smith

Opis

Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East presents the first extended discussion of the relationship between music and cultic worship in ancient western Asia.

Spis treści

1. Introduction;  2.Types of cultic activity and the music associated with them, 1;  3. Types of cultic activity and the music associated with them, 2;  4. Musical media, 1;  5. Musical media, 2: membranophones (drums) and idiophones;  6. Musical media, 3: groups and ensembles; sanctity and divinisation; organisation and administration;  7. Approaching the musical sound-world

O autorze

John Arthur Smith was an independent scholar and organist based in Norway. He was the author of Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (Ashgate, 2011), and had published numerous journal articles, book chapters, and articles in reference works.