A Compendium of Musical Instruments and Instrumental Terminology in the Bible

by Kolyada,Yelena

• ISBN13: 9781845534097
• ISBN10: 1845534093
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781317490395
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-08-08
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

This is the first compendium of musical instruments and instrumental terminology in the Bible. Originally published in Russian in 2003, it was awarded both the laureate diploma as 'the event of the year', in the first national competition of Orthodox books in Russia, and the prestigious gold medal of the Orthodox St. Makarius Foundation. This edition makes this innovative reference book available to English-speaking readers for the first time.

Author Biography

Yelena Kolyada graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and completed a doctoral thesis at the Vilnius Conservatory in 1987. She is a former Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She has also made a series of programmes on Russian church music for BBC Radio 3 and the BBC world Service.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Glossary of Biblical and Talmudic terminology	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Instrumental Music of the Bible	p. 3
Plucked Stringed Instruments	p. 29
Wind Instruments	p. 65
Percussion Instruments	p. 107
Ambivalent Instrumental Terms	p. 131
Generic and Unclear Musical Terms	p. 155
Biblical Musical Instruments in Postbiblical Sources and in Bible Translations	p. 171
Appendices
List of references to musical instruments in the Bible	p. 209
A typological table of the terminology of biblical instruments	p. 213
Table of the instrumental ensembles in the Bible	p. 215
Synoptic table of references to the musical instruments in the Bible	p. 217
Abbreviations used in the lists of Bible translations, and historical, literary and patristic sources referred to	p. 257
List of Bible translations referred to	p. 259
List of historical, literary and patristic sources	p. 267
Bibliography	p. 277
Index of Instrumental Terms	p. 296
Index of Names	p. 298
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