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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. The book covers ancient
Israel and Judah, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Elam, and
ancient Egypt, focusing on the period from approximately 3000 BCE
to around 586 BCE. This wide-ranging book brings together insights
from ancient archaeological, iconographic, written, and musical
sources, as well as from modern scholarship. Through careful
analysis, comparison, and evaluation of those sources, the author
builds a picture of a world where religious culture was predominant
and where music was intrinsic to common cultic activity.
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. The book covers ancient
Israel and Judah, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Elam, and
ancient Egypt, focusing on the period from approximately 3000 BCE
to around 586 BCE. This wide-ranging book brings together insights
from ancient archaeological, iconographic, written, and musical
sources, as well as from modern scholarship. Through careful
analysis, comparison, and evaluation of those sources, the author
builds a picture of a world where religious culture was predominant
and where music was intrinsic to common cultic activity.
In Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, John Arthur
Smith presents the first full-length study of music among the
ancient Israelites, the ancient Jews and the early Christians in
the Mediterranean lands during the period from 1000 BCE to 400 CE.
He considers the physical, religious and social setting of the
music, and how the music was performed. The extent to which early
Christian music may have retained elements of the musical tradition
of Judaism is also considered. After reviewing the subject's
historical setting, and describing the main sources, the author
discusses music at the Jerusalem Temple and in a variety of spheres
of Jewish life away from it. His subsequent discussion of early
Christian music covers music in private devotion, monasticism, the
Eucharist, and gnostic literature. He concludes with an examination
of the question of the relationship between Jewish and early
Christian music, and a consideration of the musical environments
that are likely to have influenced the formation of the earliest
Christian chant. The scant remains of notated music from the period
are discussed and placed in their respective contexts. The numerous
sources that are the foundation of the book are evaluated
objectively and critically in the light of modern scholarship. Due
attention is given to where their limitations lie, and to what they
cannot tell us as well as to what they can. The book serves as a
reliable introduction as well as being an invaluable guide through
one of the most complex periods of music history.
In Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, John Arthur
Smith presents the first full-length study of music among the
ancient Israelites, the ancient Jews and the early Christians in
the Mediterranean lands during the period from 1000 BCE to 400 CE.
He considers the physical, religious and social setting of the
music, and how the music was performed. The extent to which early
Christian music may have retained elements of the musical tradition
of Judaism is also considered. After reviewing the subject's
historical setting, and describing the main sources, the author
discusses music at the Jerusalem Temple and in a variety of spheres
of Jewish life away from it. His subsequent discussion of early
Christian music covers music in private devotion, monasticism, the
Eucharist, and gnostic literature. He concludes with an examination
of the question of the relationship between Jewish and early
Christian music, and a consideration of the musical environments
that are likely to have influenced the formation of the earliest
Christian chant. The scant remains of notated music from the period
are discussed and placed in their respective contexts. The numerous
sources that are the foundation of the book are evaluated
objectively and critically in the light of modern scholarship. Due
attention is given to where their limitations lie, and to what they
cannot tell us as well as to what they can. The book serves as a
reliable introduction as well as being an invaluable guide through
one of the most complex periods of music history.
Articles on English music, from the medieval period to the present
day, centred on four of the major areas of scholarly enquiry. The
major themes of the essays in this collection reflect the work of
the distinguished scholar John Caldwell, professor of music at
Oxford University and a composer in his own right. There is a
strong focus on early music, with contributions considering the
medieval carol, sources for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century
harpsichord music, and the transmission of fifteenth-century
English music to the Continent; but they range right up to the
twentieth century, with an examination of music in Oxford. All are
concerned in one way or another with themes which recur in
Professor Caldwell's scholarship: sources; style; performance; and
historiography. Contributors: SALLY HARPER, DAVID HILEY, EMMA
HORNBY, HARRY JOHNSTONE, MARGARET BENT, DAVID MAW, MATTHIAS RANGE,
REINHARD STROHM, PETER WRIGHT, MAGNUS WILLIAMSON, JOHN HARPER,
SIMON MCVEIGH, CHRISTOPHER PAGE, OWEN REES, SUSAN WOLLENBERG, JOHN
ARTHUR SMITH, BENNETT ZON, DAVID MAW. To subscribe to the Tabula
Gratulatoria for this volume, CLICK HERE
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Echoes (Paperback)
Roger Arthur Smith
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R477
R402
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Roger Arthur Smith’s spectacular debut, Echoes, asks, what
happens when your fundamental nature is challenged, not by the many
evils without, but by an unexpected awakening within? It’s 1960
in Hawthorne, Nevada, a desert town so secluded that the U.S. Navy
stores munitions nearby. While the Cold war lumbers on, the
town’s gossip mills and marriage-eligible bachelors and
bachelorettes play a game of cat and mouse, a pastime, that if
nothing else, manages to while away the hours. Attorney Will
Dubykky keeps a watchful eye over Hawthorne, and it comes as no
surprise that his interest is piqued by the sudden appearance of a
strange boy. Why is this boy disfigured? Why does he have
difficulty speaking? Why can’t some people seem to see him? As
one of the initiated, Dubykky has an inkling; the boy is evil, an
echo sent to rectify the wrongs of an indulgent murderer. The
echo’s mission? Tempt, trap and eliminate the human monster that
spawned it. If all goes according to evil’s intent, the echo will
die fulfilling its destiny. This fatal sequence has persisted as
long as evil itself, but before the dark circle can be closed,
riddles must be solved. In a town this small, who is capable of
committing a string of heinous crimes undetected? And, when the
time comes will this echo, more naïve and innocent than any echo
Dubykky has ever encountered, fulfill its gruesome destiny? Echoes,
is a wildly entertaining, gloriously absorbing exploration of
humanity, evil, and the stark environs in which both exist.
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