Singing Archaeology
Singing Archaeology

Author: John Richardson

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 1999-03-31

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780819563422

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Illuminates the aesthetics of a major American composer.

Singing Archaeology
Singing Archaeology

Author: John Richardson

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780819563170

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Illuminates the aesthetics of a major American composer.

The Prehistory of Music
The Prehistory of Music

Author: Iain Morley

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2013-10-24

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 019150209X

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Music is possessed by all human cultures, and archaeological evidence for musical activities pre-dates even the earliest known cave art. Music has been the subject of keen investigation across a great diversity of fields, from neuroscience and psychology to ethnography, archaeology, and its own dedicated field, musicology. Despite the great contributions that these studies have made towards understanding musical behaviours, much remains mysterious about this ubiquitous human phenomenon—not least, its origins. In a ground-breaking study, this volume brings together evidence from these fields, and more, in investigating the evolutionary origins of our musical abilities, the nature of music, and the earliest archaeological evidence for musical activities amongst our ancestors. Seeking to understand the true relationship between our unique musical capabilities and the development of the remarkable social, emotional, and communicative abilities of our species, it will be essential reading for anyone interested in music and human physical and cultural evolution.

The Archaeology of Lapita Dispersal in Oceania
The Archaeology of Lapita Dispersal in Oceania

Author: Geoffrey Richard Clark

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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Papers from the Fourth Lapita Conference held in Canberra. Lapita archaeology is of fundamental importance to understanding the Pacific since it unearths information about the first people to establish themselves beyond the Solomon Islands to as far east as Samoa around 3000 years ago.

Ancient Greek Music
Ancient Greek Music

Author: Stefan Hagel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-12-17

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 1139479814

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This book endeavours to pinpoint the relations between musical, and especially instrumental, practice and the evolving conceptions of pitch systems. It traces the development of ancient melodic notation from reconstructed origins, through various adaptations necessitated by changing musical styles and newly invented instruments, to its final canonical form. It thus emerges how closely ancient harmonic theory depended on the culturally dominant instruments, the lyre and the aulos. These threads are followed down to late antiquity, when details recorded by Ptolemy permit an exceptionally clear view. Dr Hagel discusses the textual and pictorial evidence, introducing mathematical approaches wherever feasible, but also contributes to the interpretation of instruments in the archaeological record and occasionally is able to outline the general features of instruments not directly attested. The book will be indispensable to all those interested in Greek music, technology and performance culture and the general history of musicology.