The Sound of Byzantium – The Byzantine Musical Instruments

Antonios Botonakis, Nikos Maliaras, Chriastian Troelsgard , Merve Özkiliç

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Koc University Press
02 November 2023

History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art; Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600); Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles

Essays, imagery, and an illustrated dictionary for the instruments of the Byzantine era.

More than one hundred color plates accompany essays on representations of musical instruments in Byzantine iconography and literature and account for their uses in state ceremonies of the Middle and Late Byzantine periods. The contributors explore the musical instruments in Byzantine sources and evaluate their importance for specific themes in Byzantine traditions. Innovative and insightful, this comprehensive volume also contains a dictionary of musical instruments, accompanied by original drawings specially prepared for this publication.

By: Antonios Botonakis, Nikos Maliaras, Chriastian Troelsgard, Merve Özkiliç
Edited by: Merve OEzkilic
Imprint: Koc University Press
Dimensions: Height: 11mm, Width: 8mm, Spine: 1mm
ISBN: 9786057685858
ISBN 10: 6057685857
Pages: 114
Publication Date: 02 November 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface – Engin Akyürek Introduction - Antonios Botonakis & Merve Özkiliç 1) Iconography of Musical Instruments in Byzantine Visual Sources – Antonios Botonakis 2) Musical Instruments in Byzantine Literature - Christian Troelsgård 3) Ceremonial and Military Music and Musical Instruments for Byzantine Emperors in The Middle and Late Byzantine Period - Nikos Maliaras Dictionary of Byzantine Musical Instruments – Prepared by Antonios Botonakis and illustrated by Ezgi Özbakkaloglu Bibliography Index

Antonios Botonakis is a musicologist, a postdoctoral researcher at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (GABAM) at Koç University in Istanbul, and a faculty member at Hellenic Mediterranean University in Greece. Nikos Maliaras is professor of the history of musical instruments at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Christian Troelsgård is associate professor of Greek and Latin philology at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Merve Özkılıç is an archaeologist and an editor and project coordinator at GABAM.