Music from ancient Meroë : reconstructing Queen Amanishakheto's auloi /
"The story of reconstructing the auloi (double-piped flutes) of Meroe from a jumble of fragments into six auloi with twelve pipes. The reconstruction took twelve years, beginning in 2013. With this volume, we present a contextualized narrative of discovery, detailed documentation of the cache a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbus, GA :
Lockwood Press,
2026.
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| Summary: | "The story of reconstructing the auloi (double-piped flutes) of Meroe from a jumble of fragments into six auloi with twelve pipes. The reconstruction took twelve years, beginning in 2013. With this volume, we present a contextualized narrative of discovery, detailed documentation of the cache as we have analyzed it, and the technical and musical interpretations of these pipes. The complex nature of the material and its degradation necessarily impose limitations, and there remain gaps in our understanding; also, not all elements have survived"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 296 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 31 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-291) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781957454740 1957454741 |