The Sound of Byzantium: The Byzantine Musical Instruments

The Sound of Byzantium: The Byzantine Musical Instruments

Antonios Botonakis, Nikos Maliaras, Chriastian Troelsgard, Antonios Botonakis (Editor), Merve Özkiliç (Editor)
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Publication Date: September 22nd, 2023
Publisher:
Koc University Press
ISBN:
9786057685858
Pages:
113
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Description

Essays, imagery, and an illustrated dictionary for the instruments of the Byzantine era. 

More than one hundred color plates accompany essays on representations of musical instruments in Byzantine iconography and literature and account for their uses in state ceremonies of the Middle and Late Byzantine periods. The contributors explore the musical instruments in Byzantine sources and evaluate their importance for specific themes in Byzantine traditions. Innovative and insightful, this comprehensive volume also contains a dictionary of musical instruments, accompanied by original drawings specially prepared for this publication.

About the Author

Antonios Botonakis is a musicologist, a postdoctoral researcher at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (GABAM) at Koç University in Istanbul, and a faculty member at Hellenic Mediterranean University in Greece.

Christian Troelsgård is associate professor of Greek and Latin philology at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. 

Antonios Botonakis is a musicologist, a postdoctoral researcher at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (GABAM) at Koç University in Istanbul, and a faculty member at Hellenic Mediterranean University in Greece.

Merve Özkılıç is an archaeologist and an editor and project coordinator at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (GABAM) at Koç University in Istanbul.