Author : John Arthur Smith
Release : 2020-11-09
Genre : Music
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Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East write by John Arthur Smith. This book was released on 2020-11-09. Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East presents the first extended discussion of the relationship between music and cultic worship in ancient western Asia. The book covers ancient Israel and Judah, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Elam, and ancient Egypt, focusing on the period from approximately 3000 BCE to around 586 BCE. This wide-ranging book brings together insights from ancient archaeological, iconographic, written, and musical sources, as well as from modern scholarship. Through careful analysis, comparison, and evaluation of those sources, the author builds a picture of a world where religious culture was predominant and where music was intrinsic to common cultic activity.