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Images of Music and Musicians as Indicators of Status, Wealth and Political Power on Roman Funerary Monuments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Untersuchungen bildlicher Darstellungen von Musikinstrumenten sowie Musikantinnen und Musikanten haben ergeben, dass sie in Grabkontexten benutzt wurden, um auf den Wohlstand sowie den politischen oder sozialen Status der verstorbenen Person oder ihrer ...
Alexandrescu, Cristina-Georgeta
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Polyphony and Poikilia: Theology and Aesthetics in the Exegesis of Tradition in Georgian Chant

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Georgian polyphonic chant and folk song is beginning to receive scholarly attention outside its homeland, and is a useful case study in several respects. This study focuses on the theological nature of its musical material, examining relevant examples in
Nun Sidonia (Freedman)
doaj   +1 more source

Hidden Meanings of Music Iconography of the Kyoto Temple Sanjusan Gendo

open access: yesЕжегодник Япония, 2022
The article is devoted to musical-iconographical conception of a temple. Sculptures of Attendant Deities Serving the 1000-Armed Kannon represented with musical instruments are described one by one. Successive features of some Attendant Deities images and
M. Esipova
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Visual Mental Imagery Evoked in Indian Classical Music: A Listener-Oriented Study

open access: yesMusic & Science, 2023
Music and visual mental imagery (VMI) are closely associated. The visual depiction of musical instruments and musical settings is central to music iconography and music-mediated visual culture.
Junmoni Borgohain   +3 more
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Archaeology and virtual acoustics. A pan flute from ancient Egypt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper presents the early developments of a recently started research project, aimed at studying from a multidisciplinary perspective an exceptionally well preserved ancient pan flute.
ANGELINI, IVANA   +13 more
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Träume, Utopien, Visionen und Territorien: Annotationen zur Napoleonischen Ikonographie 1814–1941/44

open access: yesILCEA, 2018
The concepts “dream”, “utopia” and “vision”, which are widely used synonymously in this essay, are investigated with regard to territories using the example of the Napoleonic iconography. The pictorial Napoleonic reception is occasionally supplemented by
Oliver Benjamin Hemmerle
doaj   +1 more source

Music in Belgian Fine Arts at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries [PDF]

open access: yesХудожественная культура
The article is devoted to the specifics of the organization of musical life in Belgium at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and its reflection in the iconography of Belgian fine art. Within the framework of the set objectives, the author determines
Klyushina Elena V.
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On the sacral meaning of the musical instrument and the role of prophet David in the scene of the Death of the Rigtheous man. A contribution to the study of the visual representations of musical instruments in the east-Christian sacral art [PDF]

open access: yesMuzikologija, 2019
The Old Testament prophet David was known in sacred history as the King of Jews, as a prophet, the compiler of the Psalter, but also as a musician.
Gavrilović Anđela
doaj   +1 more source

Baroque, transitional, and modern bows under the positivist aegis: a discussion of the concept of evolution traditionally applied to the development of the violin bow

open access: yesPer Musi, 2022
In violin bow history, it is usual to face the conception of a linear and progressive sequence over the course of its development through the centuries; a sequence marked by the refinement of somewhat rudimentary specimen into the perfection of the ...
Adonhiran Reis , Marcus Held
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Turkic trace in ancient Russian book iconography analysis of the «King David and musicians» miniature from the Ipatiyev (Godunov) psalter, 1594.

open access: yesИсторическая этнология, 2019
The miniature King David and Musicians from the Ipatiyev Psalter (1594), which was created in Moscow, is examined in the article. The miniature actually is an inexact copy of the one from the older Illuminated Psalter of mid16th century (perhaps both had
Margarita V. Esipova
doaj   +1 more source

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