Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Music and Dance Performances in the Ancient Mediterranean: An Interpretive Approach brings together research from the subdiscipline of archaeomusicology, or music archaeology, with new perspectives from art history, the archaeology of performance, and sensory studies, to provide a comprehensive overview of music and dance in the ancient Mediterranean world. Through an archaeological approach to performance that places musical and dance activities within an actual or symbolic space, the book utilizes the study of instruments and sound objects to provide a valuable investigation that can shed light on the ritual meaning and social function of sonic events, as well as on the role of musicians and dancers in antiquity
Including Egypt, the Near East, Greece, Etruria, and Rome, this handbook emphasizes the evidence from material culture for both ritual and everyday contexts. Providing a useful reference for anyone coming to this field of research for the first time, this volume introduces the varied modes of inquiry that have directed the study of ancient music and dance, and offers new possibilities for future study.
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
1. Interpreting Music and Dance in the Ancient Mediterranean through Material Culture
Angela Bellia and Clemente Marconi
PART I: The Religious Sphere
2. Music and Dance Performances in Ancient Egyptian Temples
Heidi Köpp-Junk
3. Location of Tableaux with Dance and Music Scenes in Egyptian Temple Architecture: Meaning and Significance?
Batyah Schachter
4. Music in Early Mesopotamia
Lorenzo Verderame
5. Musical within Festivals Sacrifices, and Processions, in Third- and Second- Millennium Mesopotamia: Insights from Three Remarkable Depictions
Daniel Sánchez Muñoz
6. Phoenician-Punic Musical and Dance Performances: Instruments, Contexts, and Significance
Meritxell Ferrer Martín and Mireia López-Bertran
7. Choral Dancing on Archaic Greek Sacred Architecture
Clemente Marconi
8. Sacred Sounds and Ritual Movements in Greek Sacred Spaces
Tyler Jo Smith
9. Instruments and Sound Tools in Sacred Contexts of the Ancient Greek World
Sylvain Perrot
10. Musical and Dance Performances among Iberian and Celtiberian Communities
Raquel Jaménez Pasalodos
11. Performances in Oriental Cults in Rome: Instruments and Sound Tools in Context
Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer
PART II: The Sphere of Everyday Life
12. The Sound of Work: An Ancient Near Eastern Perspective
Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Mireia López-Bertran
13. Musical and Choral Performances in the Human Cycle of Life: Infancy and Childhood, Wedding and Marriage, and Death in the Ancient Greek World
Angela Bellia
14. Sounds, Songs and Ritualized Movements in Work, Hunting, and Travel Activities in the Ancient Greek World
Fàbio Vergara Cerqueira
15. Musical and Choral Performances in Theater Spaces and Contexts
Luigi Todisco
16. Musical and Dance Performances at the Banquet in Etruria
Alessandro Naso
17. Musical and Choral Performances in Banqueting Halls in the Roman World: The Evidence of Material Culture
Claudina Romero Mayorga
PART III: The Funerary Sphere
18. Dancing with the Dead: Music and Performance in Ancient Near Eastern funerals
Nicola Laneri
19. Musical Iconographies on Funerary Attic Vases
Elvia Giudice
20. Musical and Dance Performances in the Funerary Spaces in Magna Graecia
Fabien Bièvre-Perrin
21. Voice and Body, Emotion and Motion: Music and Dance at Roman Funerals
Valerie M. Hope
PART IV: Beyond the Ancient Mediterranean
22. Music and Dance Performances beyond the Ancient Mediterranean: A Global Perspective
Lars-Christian Koch
Index
