A typological and iconographic investigation of musical instruments in Iron Age Greece and Cyprus (11th-7th centuries BC)
Musical imagery provides an iconographic link between the Late Bronze Age and the passage to the Early Iron Age in Greece and Cyprus. The thematic link provided by this particular genre is very important because of the semantic value of musical scenes. The performance of music as a patterned behaviour is associated with fundamental patterns of behaviour such as ritual. In addition, like all forms of art, the creation and performance of music is a social act closely linked to other social events, groups of people, hierarchies, and the beliefs and trends of a given society. Therefore, the creation of a musical scene alluding to actual experiences of musical performances is automatically a reference to these sets of concepts, irrespective of whether an image is representing a <i>specific</i> performance or not. This thesis examines the iconography of musical instruments in Greece and Cyprus from the 11<sup>th</sup> to the 7<sup>th</sup> centuries BC. The work focuses on all types of artefacts with musical iconography, including two- and three-dimensional representations. In order to analyse the musical scenes, the first step is to establish a <i>typology</i> of Greek and Cypriote musical instruments in connection
Kolotourou, Aikaterini
A typological and iconographic investigation of musical instruments in Iron Age Greece and Cyprus (11th-7th centuries BC). Musical imagery provides an iconographic link between the Late Bronze Age and the passage to the Early Iron Age in Greece and Cyprus. The thematic link provided by this particular genre is very important because of the semantic value of musical scenes. The performance of music as a patterned behaviour is associated with fundamental patterns of behaviour such as ritual. In addition, like all forms of art, the creation and performance of music is a social act closely linked to other social events, groups of people, hierarchies, and the beliefs and trends of a given society. Therefore, the creation of a musical scene alluding to actual experiences of musical performances is automatically a reference to these sets of concepts, irrespective of whether an image is representing a <i>specific</i> performance or not. This thesis examines the iconography of musical instruments in Greece and Cyprus from the 11<sup>th</sup> to the 7<sup>th</sup> centuries BC. The work focuses on all types of artefacts with musical iconography, including two- and three-dimensional representations. In order to analyse the musical scenes, the first step is to establish a <i>typology</i> of Greek and Cypriote musical instruments in connection
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