A Comparative Study of the Sama Rite in "SamāNāmeh-Hā” and Persian, Painting with an Iconographic Approach [PDF]
Samā, as a ritual of the discourse of Islamic mysticism, refers to a process that its apparent presentation initially associates with a kind of dance or rhythmic movement due to the physical actions of the participants in this ceremony. Since the variety
Mehdi Mokhtari, Narges Zaker Jafari
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Images of Music and Musicians as Indicators of Status, Wealth and Political Power on Roman Funerary Monuments [PDF]
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
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)
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Hidden Meanings of Music Iconography of the Kyoto Temple Sanjusan Gendo
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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Concerning Barbarians and Romans, and RomanDiscourse on Music and Civilization [PDF]
Während der römischen Expansionszeit wurden barbarische Instrumente – Trompete und Trommel – in den Quellen als ,eigenartig‘ oder ,primitiv‘ und ihr Klang als unmusikalisch verstanden.
Vendries, Christophe
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Visual Mental Imagery Evoked in Indian Classical Music: A Listener-Oriented Study
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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Träume, Utopien, Visionen und Territorien: Annotationen zur Napoleonischen Ikonographie 1814–1941/44
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
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Music in Belgian Fine Arts at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries [PDF]
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]
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
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No evidence for an early seventeenth-century Indian sighting of Keplers supernova (SN1604) [PDF]
In a recent paper Sule et al. (Astronomical Notes, vol. 332 (2011), 655) argued that an early 17th-century Indian mural of the constellation Sagittarius with a dragon-headed tail indicated that the bright supernova of 1604 was also sighted by Indian ...
van Gent, Robert H.
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