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The Routledge Handbook of Music and Dance Performances in the Ancient Mediterranean: An Interpretive Approach brings together research from the subdiscipline of archaeomusicology, or music archaeology, with new perspectives from art history, the archaeology of performance, and sensory studies, to provide a comprehensive overview of music and dance in the ancient Mediterranean world. Through an archaeological approach to performance that places musical and dance activities within an actual or symbolic space, the book utilizes the study of instruments and sound objects to provide a valuable investigation that can shed light on the ritual meaning and social function of sonic events, as well as on the role of musicians and dancers in antiquity
Including Egypt, the Near East, Greece, Etruria, and Rome, this handbook emphasizes the evidence from material culture for both ritual and everyday contexts. Providing a useful reference for anyone coming to this field of research for the first time, this volume introduces the varied modes of inquiry that have directed the study of ancient music and dance, and offers new possibilities for future study.
List of contents
1. Interpreting Music and Dance in the Ancient Mediterranean through Material Culture
Angela Bellia and Clemente MarconiPART I: The Religious Sphere2. Music and Dance Performances in Ancient Egyptian Temples
Heidi Köpp-Junk3. Location of Tableaux with Dance and Music Scenes in Egyptian Temple Architecture: Meaning and Significance?
Batyah Schachter4. Music in Early Mesopotamia
Lorenzo Verderame5. Musical within Festivals Sacrifices, and Processions, in Third- and Second- Millennium Mesopotamia: Insights from Three Remarkable Depictions
Daniel Sánchez Muñoz6. Phoenician-Punic Musical and Dance Performances: Instruments, Contexts, and Significance
Meritxell Ferrer Martín 7. Choral Dancing on Archaic Greek Sacred Architecture
Clemente Marconi8. Sacred Sounds and Ritual Movements in Greek Sacred Spaces
Tyler Jo Smith9. Instruments and Sound Tools in Sacred Contexts of the Ancient Greek World
Sylvain Perrot10. Musical and Dance Performances among Iberian and Celtiberian Communities
Raquel Jaménez Pasalodos11. Performances in Oriental Cults in Rome: Instruments and Sound Tools in Context
Arnaud Saura-ZiegelmeyerPART II: The Sphere of Everyday Life12. The Sound of Work: An Ancient Near Eastern Perspective
Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Mireia López-Bertran13. Musical and Choral Performances in the Human Cycle of Life: Infancy and Childhood, Wedding and Marriage, and Death in the Ancient Greek World
Angela Bellia14. Sounds, Songs and Ritualized Movements in Work, Hunting, and Travel Activities in the Ancient Greek World
Fàbio Vergara Cerqueira15. Musical and Choral Performances in Theater Spaces and Contexts
Luigi Todisco16. Musical and Dance Performances at the Banquet in Etruria
Alessandro Naso17. Musical and Choral Performances in Banqueting Halls in the Roman World: The Evidence of Material Culture
Claudina Romero MayorgaPART III: The Funerary Sphere18. Dancing with the Dead: Music and Performance in Ancient Near Eastern funerals
Nicola Laneri19. Musical Iconographies on Funerary Attic Vases
Elvia Giudice20. Musical and Dance Performances in the Funerary Spaces in Magna Graecia
Fabien Bièvre-Perrin21. Voice and Body, Emotion and Motion: Music and Dance at Roman Funerals
Valerie M. HopePART IV: Beyond the Ancient Mediterranean22. Music and Dance Performances beyond the Ancient Mediterranean: A Global Perspective
Lars-Christian Koch
About the author
Angela Bellia is Professor of Musicology and Music History at the University of Palermo. Currently, she is the principal investigator of the research project "Voicing Spaces", supported by an Advanced Grant from the Italian Science Fund (FIS).
Clemente Marconi is James R. McCredie Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University and Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Milan
