Aural Architecture In Byzantium: Music, Acoustics, And Ritual: Music, Acoustics, And Ritual

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Aural architecture in Jerusalem, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria -- 2 The great outdoors: liturgical encounters with the early medieval Armenian church -- 3 Byzantine chant notation: written documents in an aural tradition -- 4 Understanding liturgy: the Byzantine liturgical commentaries -- 5 Christ's all-seeing eye in the dome -- 6 Transfigured: mosaic and liturgy at Nea Moni -- 7 We who musically represent the cherubim -- 8 Spatiality, embodiment, and agency in ekphraseis of church buildings -- 9 Acoustics of Hagia Sophia: a scientific approach to the humanities and sacred space -- 10 Live auralization of Cappella Romana at the Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

• • Author: Bissera V. Pentcheva
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Jun 20, 2017
• • Number of Pages: 272 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1472485157
• • ISBN-13: 9781472485151