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Enchanted Bodies: Reframing the Culture of Greek Aulos Performance
The double-pipe reed woodwind known as the aulos was the most pervasive instrument in ancient Greek life. Despite recent attention to affect and the senses and advancements in ancient musicology, there remains no comprehensive study of this cultural ...
Simone, Caleb
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The opposition between aulos and barbiton in Critias 1 D.-K. = 8 Gent.-Pr. is reconsidered in light of Telestes 806 PMG. Within a comprehensive theory of the Greek archaic lyric the musical instruments are not significant in postulating distinctions ...
Alessandro Iannucci
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Looking up music in two ‘encyclopedias’ printed in 1501
Abstract A modern user of a printed encyclopedia expects to find concise entries on a wide range of subjects organised alphabetically for ease of reference. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries a number of scholarly texts of a particularly long and wide‐ranging character were essentially ‘encyclopedized’ through the provision of compendious subject
Tim Shephard, Charlotte Hancock
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Louvre aulos: basic scales and keys, Imperial setting (Lynch 2022)
As discussed in a forthcoming publication, this figure represents the Iastian/Hypoiastian keys produced by the Louvre Aulos in its Imperial setting. This setting is consistent with the tunings recorded in the Imperial musical documents, discussed in ...
Lynch, Tosca A. C.
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‘De voluptate aurium’: The sounds of heaven in a 1501 sensory treatise on the afterlife
Abstract In his De gloria et gaudiis beatorum, printed in 1501, the clergyman Zaccaria Lilio explores a popular topic in the religious life of Renaissance Italy: what is heaven like and what kind of experience awaits the blessed there? And his answer represents a snapshot of a characteristic manner in which heaven was imagined in the period, both in ...
Laura Ștefănescu
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This work reports the study of metal fragments from Roman pipes excavated from the archaeological site of Pompeii and currently preserved in the deposits of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN).
Sofia Schiattone +6 more
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The present paper concentrates on one of the musical instruments retrieved from Grave II at Daphnē, the wooden aulos. Only one pipe of the instrument, together with its bulbous mouthpiece, was found.
Psaroudakes, S.
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In ancient Greek religion the Sirens were often associated with the afterlife and burial rituals. Their role in ancient Greek literature and philosophy was also very important. The Sirens’ motif can be interpreted from many viewpoints, has many different
Angeliki Liveri
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Artykuł poświęcony jest aulosowi, zapomnianemu starogreckiemu instrumentowi dętemu. Jego przenikliwy dźwięk mógł wywoływać trans, dlatego wykorzystywany był zarówno do wyrażania radości jak pasyjnej grozy.
Nawarecki, Aleksander
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Louvre aulos basic scales – Classical setting (Lynch 2022)
As discussed in a forthcoming publication, this figure represents the Phrygian/Hypophrygian scales produced by the Louvre Aulos. This setting is consistent with the Classical and Hellenistic evidence discussed in Lynch 2022a–b, and especially with ...
Lynch
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