The Archaeology of Early Music Cultures
Title | The Archaeology of Early Music Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology. International Meeting |
Publisher | |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
The Archaeology of Early Music Cultures
Title | The Archaeology of Early Music Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Hickmann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Music archaeology |
ISBN |
Music & Ritual
Title | Music & Ritual PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Howell |
Publisher | Ekho Verlag |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2013-12-31 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 3944415132 |
The ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology was founded in the early 1980s by Ellen Hickmann, John Blacking, Mantle Hood and Cajsa S. Lund. This is the first volume of the new anthology series published by the study group, turning to the topic of music and religion in past cultures. Each volume of the series is composed of concise case studies, bringing together the world's foremost researchers on a particular subject, reflecting the wide scope of music-archaeological research world-wide. The series draws in perspectives from a range of different disciplines, including newly emerging fields such as archaeoacoustics, but particularly encouraging both music-archaeological and ethnomusicological perspectives.
The Study of Musical Performance in Antiquity
Title | The Study of Musical Performance in Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Agnès Garcia Ventura |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2018-11-07 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1527521168 |
This collection of eleven essays provides the reader with some valuable insights into the richness of sources dealing with music and musical performance scattered over 3000 years and covering a wide range of geographies, from Syria to Iberia, through Greece and Rome. The volume, then, offers a series of examinations of literary data and materials from different areas of the Classical World and the Near East in ancient times and in late Antiquity, examined both synchronically and diachronically, in some cases in dialogue with one another. This broad treatment makes this collection of interest to historians, archaeologists, philologists and musicians, providing them with a multi-faceted volume which guides them towards a fuller understanding of ancient societies and which heightens the awareness of the importance of music as a transversal phenomenon.
How Music Got Free
Title | How Music Got Free PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Witt |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Computer file sharing |
ISBN | 0525426612 |
"Journalist Stephen Witt traces the secret history of digital music piracy, from the German audio engineers who invented the mp3, to a North Carolina compact-disc manufacturing plant where factory worker Dell Glover leaked nearly two thousand albums over the course of a decade, to the high-rises of midtown Manhattan where music executive Doug Morris cornered the global market on rap, and, finally, into the darkest recesses of the Internet."--
The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West
Title | The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West PDF eBook |
Author | Curt Sachs |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2008-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0486466612 |
An eminent scholar explores the evolution of music, from the ecstatic singing of early civilizations to the development of more structured styles in Egypt, East Asia, Rome, and other regions.
The Prehistory of Music
Title | The Prehistory of Music PDF eBook |
Author | Iain Morley |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2013-10-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 019150209X |
Music is possessed by all human cultures, and archaeological evidence for musical activities pre-dates even the earliest known cave art. Music has been the subject of keen investigation across a great diversity of fields, from neuroscience and psychology to ethnography, archaeology, and its own dedicated field, musicology. Despite the great contributions that these studies have made towards understanding musical behaviours, much remains mysterious about this ubiquitous human phenomenon—not least, its origins. In a ground-breaking study, this volume brings together evidence from these fields, and more, in investigating the evolutionary origins of our musical abilities, the nature of music, and the earliest archaeological evidence for musical activities amongst our ancestors. Seeking to understand the true relationship between our unique musical capabilities and the development of the remarkable social, emotional, and communicative abilities of our species, it will be essential reading for anyone interested in music and human physical and cultural evolution.