Music iconography is a research field notable for its inherent interdisciplinary character, involving a wide variety of specialists within and beyond the boundaries of musicology, the latter including, among others, ethnologists, cultural historians, art historians, archaeologists, and historians of religion. This volume started life as the proceedings of a conference on archaeomusicology held on March 7, 2015, at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. Contributors to the conference were asked to systematically address not only the iconography but also the ritual contexts and functions of representations of musicians in coroplastic art of the ancient world. The aim of the conference and its proceedings was to incorporate coroplastic art featuring musical iconography into the corpus of sources and documentation for the study of ancient music and to consider figurines of male and female musicians as emblematic of the close link between musical practice and the religious and ritual spheres. The terracotta figurines are in effect a particular class of artifacts that appears to have been deeply embedded in social life, including sacred, domestic, and funerary contexts. These images contribute to the reconstruction of what music and the production of music meant for ancient societies, and they also provide information about the relationship of performance to the deities and about which musical instruments were best suited to the particulars of diverse ritual occasions, including sacred and funerary contexts.
L'iconografia dell'arte musicale è un campo di ricerca notevole per il suo carattere interdisciplinare intrinseco, che coinvolge una vasta gamma di specialisti all'interno e oltre i confini della musicologia, comprendendo, tra gli altri, etnologi, storici culturali, storici dell'arte, archeologi e storici della religione. Questo volume è nato come Atti di un convegno sull'archeomusicologia tenutosi il 7 marzo 2015 presso l'Istituto di Belle Arti dell'Università di New York. Ai partecipanti è stato chiesto di affrontare in modo sistematico non solo l'iconografia, ma anche i contesti rituali e le funzioni delle rappresentazioni di musicisti nell'arte coroplastica del mondo antico. L'obiettivo della conferenza, e degli Atti, è stato quello di integrare l'arte coroplastica con l'iconografia musicale nel corpus delle fonti e della documentazione per lo studio della musica antica e di considerare le figurine di musicisti maschili e femminili come emblematiche dello stretto legame tra la pratica musicale e le sfere religiose e rituali. Le figurine in terracotta sono infatti una particolare classe di manufatti che sembra essere stata profondamente radicata nella vita sociale, inclusi contesti sacri, domestici e funerari. Queste immagini contribuiscono alla ricostruzione di ciò che la musica e la produzione di musica significava per le società antiche e forniscono anche informazioni sulla relazione tra rito e divinità e su quali strumenti musicali fossero più adatti alle diverse occasioni rituali, comprese quelle sacre e funerarie.
Bellia, A. (a cura di). (2016). Musicians in Ancient Coroplastic Art: Iconography, Ritual Contexts, and Functions. Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali.
Musicians in Ancient Coroplastic Art: Iconography, Ritual Contexts, and Functions
Angela Bellia
2016-12-01
Abstract
Music iconography is a research field notable for its inherent interdisciplinary character, involving a wide variety of specialists within and beyond the boundaries of musicology, the latter including, among others, ethnologists, cultural historians, art historians, archaeologists, and historians of religion. This volume started life as the proceedings of a conference on archaeomusicology held on March 7, 2015, at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. Contributors to the conference were asked to systematically address not only the iconography but also the ritual contexts and functions of representations of musicians in coroplastic art of the ancient world. The aim of the conference and its proceedings was to incorporate coroplastic art featuring musical iconography into the corpus of sources and documentation for the study of ancient music and to consider figurines of male and female musicians as emblematic of the close link between musical practice and the religious and ritual spheres. The terracotta figurines are in effect a particular class of artifacts that appears to have been deeply embedded in social life, including sacred, domestic, and funerary contexts. These images contribute to the reconstruction of what music and the production of music meant for ancient societies, and they also provide information about the relationship of performance to the deities and about which musical instruments were best suited to the particulars of diverse ritual occasions, including sacred and funerary contexts.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2. MUSICIANS Bellia impaginato.pdf
Solo gestori archvio
Descrizione: intero volume
Tipologia:
Versione Editoriale
Dimensione
8.49 MB
Formato
Adobe PDF
|
8.49 MB | Adobe PDF | Visualizza/Apri Richiedi una copia |
I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


