Stringed musical instruments : artefacts in the archaeology of Western Europe 500 B.C. to A.D. 1200
This dissertation takes a broad European view of stringed musical instruments as artefacts in the archaeology of later Prehistory and the early Middle Ages. It reports on recent finds of new data during the investigation of archaeological collections both in Britain and on the Continent, and it reassesses the significance of material already known from previous research. The discussion is set within an experimental framework of practical reconstruction and other techniques (Appendix B) while its conclusions are drawn within the context of a more critical approach to the secondary sources of literature and art (Chapter 2) . Chapter Three considers the nature of classification and evolution, following on from the ethnographical researches of Picken (Folk Musical Instruments of Turkey 1975). This is followed in turn by considerations of ornamental and vestigialïżœ details (Chapter 4), manufacture (Chapter 5), structures (Chapter 6) and both musical and non-musical aspects of their functions in early European society and culture (Chapter 7). Among the subjects discussed are the ancestry of the European round-lyre, which (it is suggested) is likely to involve some general pan-European Iron Age stock, and that of
Lawson, Robert Graeme
Archaeology
Stringed musical instruments : artefacts in the archaeology of Western Europe 500 B.C. to A.D. 1200. This dissertation takes a broad European view of stringed musical instruments as artefacts in the archaeology of later Prehistory and the early Middle Ages. It reports on recent finds of new data during the investigation of archaeological collections both in Britain and on the Continent, and it reassesses the significance of material already known from previous research. The discussion is set within an experimental framework of practical reconstruction and other techniques (Appendix B) while its conclusions are drawn within the context of a more critical approach to the secondary sources of literature and art (Chapter 2) . Chapter Three considers the nature of classification and evolution, following on from the ethnographical researches of Picken (Folk Musical Instruments of Turkey 1975). This is followed in turn by considerations of ornamental and vestigialïżœ details (Chapter 4), manufacture (Chapter 5), structures (Chapter 6) and both musical and non-musical aspects of their functions in early European society and culture (Chapter 7). Among the subjects discussed are the ancestry of the European round-lyre, which (it is suggested) is likely to involve some general pan-European Iron Age stock, and that of
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