Icons of Sound - Voice, Architecture, and Imagination in Medieval Art

Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new perspectives on medieval churches and cathedrals as spaces where the perception of the visual is inherently shaped by sound.

List of contents

Introduction
Bissera V. Pentcheva
1. Singing Doors: Images, Space, and Sound in the Santa Sabina Narthex
Ivan Foletti
2. Sights and Sounds of the Armenian Night Office, as Performed at Ani: A Collation of the Archaeological, Historical, and Liturgical Evidence
Christina Maranci
3. The Glittering Sound of Hagia Sophia and the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross in Constantinople
Bissera V. Pentcheva
4. Transcendent Visions: Voice and Icon in the Byzantine Imperial Chapels
Bissera V. Pentcheva
5. Echoes and Silences of Liturgy: Liturgical Inscriptions and the Temporality of Medieval Rituals
Vincent Debiais
6. Sound, Space, and Sensory Perception: The Easter Mass in the Liturgy of San Marco, Venice
Deborah Howard
7. The Marble Tempest: Material Imagination, the Echoes of Nostos, and the Transfiguration of Myth in Romanesque Sculpture
Francisco Prado-Vilar
Epilogue: A Voice from beyond the Grave: Tintoretto among the Art Historians
Alexander Nemerov

About the author

Bissera V. Pentcheva is Professor of Art History at Stanford University.

Summary

Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new perspectives on medieval churches and cathedrals as spaces where the perception of the visual is inherently shaped by sound.

Product details

• Authors: Bissera (Stanford University Pentcheva
• Assisted by: Bissera Pentcheva (Editor), Pentcheva Bissera (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2022
• EAN: 9780367568948
• ISBN: 978-0-367-56894-8
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Music and Visual Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Music, RELIGION / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Religion: general, CE period up to c 1500, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, History of Architecture, Ancient History, Renaissance art, Renaissance style, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600), Medieval style, Western "classical" music, ART / History / European / Medieval