Author: Casey FlynnPublisher: Spectra
ISBN: 9780553288322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Most Ancient Song
Author: Casey FlynnPublisher: Spectra
ISBN: 9780553288322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Music of the Most Ancient Nations
Author: Carl EngelPublisher: Ekho Verlag
ISBN: 3944415094
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
This is the first volume of a series of commented reprints, featuring re-discovered music-archaeological works from the 1860s to the 1920s, which are difficult available, but highly relevant for the history of science and contemporary research in the study field. Each volume features the reprinted work and comments by distinguished scholars, highlighting and discussing the scholarly achievements in the light of today.
The Music of the Most Ancient Nations, Particularly of the Assyrians, Egyptians, and Hebrews
Author: Carl EngelThe Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East
Author: Richard J. DumbrillPublisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412055385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
'This volume is a massive leap forward over any previous synthesis of the subject and includes at the very minimum so much information that its academic and scientific value is self evident. The freshness and profundity of Dumbrill's approach to the subject exceeds anything attempted before. 'The mythology of ancient Mesopotamia proves readable as tonal allegory when its numerology is decoded as tuning theory. By the third millennium BC both pentatonic and heptatonic tunings were quantified throughout the entire 12-tone gamut. Richard Dumbrill has documented the massive empirical experience with strings and pipes that makes this early musicalization of the universe believable.' The volume consists in 4 parts with foreword by Prof. Ernest McClain. The first is about the decipherment, translation and interpretation of the few theoretical cuneiform texts dating from the Old Babylonian period, about 2000 BC, to Neo Assyrian up to the mid first millennium BC. Dumbrill undertakes comparative analyses and criticism of various interpretations having preceded his own and introduces new material. The second part is about the Hurrian hymns, the earliest music ever written, circa 1400 BC, and are produced in their integrality. Attempts to the interpretation of Hymn H.6 are compared and followed by Dumbrill's methodology and interpretation. Each fragment of the collection is analyzed separately. The part concludes with statistical analyses attempting at the reconstruction of some Hurrian rules of composition. The third part consists in the organology with relevant philology and is the largest collection of the Mesopotamian instrumentarium. The last part is a unique lexicon of all known Mesopotamian terminology, with quotation of texts in which the philology appears. The book had been previously published under the title of 'The Musicology and Organology of the Ancient Near East' and now appears under its new title.
The Music of the Most Ancient Nations
Author: Carl EngelEnglish Folk Songs
Author: Ralph Vaughan WilliamsPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141190922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people. Here are unfaithful soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds and tricksters. By turns funny, plain-speaking and melancholic, these songs evoke a lost world and, with their melodies provided, record a vital musical tradition. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside � but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land � as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man�s relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).
The Music of the Most Ancient Nations, Particularly of the Assyrians, Egyptians and Hebrews; with Special Reference to Recent Discoveries in Western Asia and in Egypt by Carl Engel
Author: Carl EngelConcise History of Western Music
Author: Barbara Russano HanningPublisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393971682
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
Concise History of Western Music combines Grout and Palisca's uncompromising reliability, scope, and respect for the narrative, while offering many more pedagogical aids, such as chapter preludes and postludes; "Etudes," excursions that explore the material more deeply than the main text; and "Windows," boxed discussions of special topics.
Semitic Music Theory
Author: Richard DumbrillPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244754764
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
This volume analyses eight cuneiform texts of Ancient Near-Eastern Music theory, essential to the understanding of Ancient Semitic Music, to a level never achieved before. The author explains why previous interpretations had been misapprehended because they were analysed with Western musicological methods, and addresses these problems.
Ancient and Modern Organ Edition
Author: Tim RufferPublisher: Canterbury Press Norwich
ISBN: 9781848257030
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The world's most famous hymn book has been completely revised and now offers the broadest ever range of traditional hymns and modern compositions, from the Psalms to John Bell, Bernadette Farrell and Stuart Townend. Its 847 items have been specially selected for their singability, theological richness and relevance. Organ edition. 2 volume set.