Cultural Transfer of Music between Byzantium and the West?

Cultural Transfer of Music between Byzantium and the West?
Author: Nina-Maria Wanek
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 687
Release: 2024-04-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004514880

This is the first comprehensive study of Greek language ordinary chants (Gloria/Doxa, Credo/Pisteuo, Sanctus/Hagios and Agnus Dei/Amnos tu theu) in Western manuscripts from the 9th to 14th centuries. These chants – known as “Missa Graeca” – have been the subject of academic research for over a hundred years. So far, however, research has been almost exclusively from a Western point of view, without knowledge of the Byzantine sources. For the first time, this book presents an in-depth analysis of these chants and their historical, linguistic and theological-liturgical environment from a Byzantine perspective. The new approach enables the author to refute numerous (and largely contradictory) theories on the origin and development of the Missa Graeca and provides new answers to old questions.

Mobility and Travel in the Mediterranean from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Mobility and Travel in the Mediterranean from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Author: Renate Schlesier
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783825867553

The Mediterranean world is a model that serves the analysis of the dynamic process of cultural identity through approximation and differentiation, through openness and self-assertion, through a constant contact - by way of travel - to foreign regions, cultures and societies. For ancient Greek culture, mobility seems to be a specific characteristic. The same can be said for the Christian, Judaic and Islamic Middle Ages, however, under different or changed circumstances. This publication presents the contributions to an international workshop in cultural analysis, which focused on mobility as a proof of the historical flexibility of Mediterranean cultural systems.

Greece Between East and West

Greece Between East and West
Author: Richard Pine
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2023-03-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1527501132

Greece Between East and West looks at the central geopolitical situation of Greece, and its pivotal role in the Balkans and the Levant. The trend towards “modernisation” and “westernisation” is examined in the light of traditional values in culture, language, history and politics which reflect Greece’s eastern legacy and the continuing presence of that legacy in contemporary society. It features original creative writing, an interview with a leading film-maker, provocative accounts of political and cultural agitation on the Aegean islands, aspects of Greek music and drama, plus historical accounts of Greek cities like Smyrna/Izmir and Alexandria, and the new phenomenon of China’s re-creation of the historic “Silk Road”. Additionally, Greece Between East and West features a Foreword by Roderick Beaton, one of the most distinguished scholars and commentators on Greek history and social affairs, and current Chair of the British School at Athens.

Medieval Polyphony and Song

Medieval Polyphony and Song
Author: Helen Deeming
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2023-06-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1107151163

A comprehensive introduction to medieval vocal and choral music, with their rich variety of genres and regional and linguistic traditions.

Early Music History

Early Music History
Author: Iain Fenlon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2009-03-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521104289

Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives preference to studies pursuing interdisciplinary approaches and to those developing novel methodological ideas. The scope is exceptionally broad and includes manuscript studies, textual criticism, iconography, studies of the relationship between words and music and the relationship between music and society. Articles in volume one include: A lost guide to Tinctoris's teachings recovered; two English motets on Simon de Montfort; the Mary Magdalene scene in the Visitatio sepulchri ceremonies; and European politics and the distribution of music in the early fifteenth century.

Medieval Society

Medieval Society
Author: Norman F. Cantor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1972
Genre: Civilization, Medieval
ISBN: 9780690781397

Music in the Balkans

Music in the Balkans
Author: Jim Samson
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 749
Release: 2013-06-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9004250387

This book asks how a study of many different musics in South East Europe can help us understand the construction of cultural traditions, East and West. It crosses boundaries of many kinds, political, cultural, repertorial and disciplinary. Above all, it seeks to elucidate the relationship between politics and musical practice in a region whose art music has been all but written out of the European story and whose traditional music has been subject to appropriation by one ideology after another. South East Europe, with its mix of ethnicities and religions, presents an exceptionally rich field of study in this respect. The book will be of value to anyone interested in intersections between pre-modern and modern cultures, between empires and nations and between culture and politics.

Ibss: Anthropology: 1975

Ibss: Anthropology: 1975
Author: International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 612
Release: 1978-08-24
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780422762502

First published in 1978. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.