Table of Contents
List of figures ix
Preface 1
I Prologue Anne Draffkorn Kilmer
A Brief Account of the Development of the Field of Music Archaelogy 11
II Studies Bathja Bayer
The Mesopotamian Theory of Music and the Ugarit Notation-a Reexamination 15
Mesopotamian Music Theory since 1977 Anne Draffkorn Kilmer 92
Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the Ancient Near East Dahlia Shehata 102
The Balag Instrument and Its Role in the Cult of Ancient Mesopotamia Uri Gabbay 129
The Ala-Instrument: Its Identification and Role Sam Mirelman 148
Musical Practices and Instruments in Late Bronze Age Ugarit(Syria) Annie Caubet 172
Nudity and Music in Anatolian Mythological Seduction Scenes and Iconographic Imagery Ora Brison 185
Illusions of Grandeur: the Instruments of Daniel 3 Reconsidered Michael Lesley 201
Greek Epic and Kypriaka: Why "Cyprus Matters" John Curtis Franklin 213
Aristophanes' Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern Mariella De Simone 24
Aspects of Music Culture in the Land of Israel during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods: Sepphoris as a Case Study Mira Waner 273
Soothing Lyres and epodai: Music Therapy and the Cases of Orpheus, Empedocles and David Antonietta Provenza 298
Sounds from under the Ashes: the Music of Cults and Mysteries in the Ancient Vesuvian Land Roberto Melini 340
III Epilogus
Ancient Music in the Modern Classroom Yossi Maurey 365
