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In this paper, we will propose a classification of al-Andalus clay drums (9th -14th Centuries) as a first approach for a music archaeological study of this important amount of findings. These drums, which appear all over the territories that were under Muslim rule during the Middle Age, mirroring al-Andalus’ archaeological map, constitute a very special corpus. The number of findings suggests that these instruments were produced on a large scale in al-Andalus but they disappear from the archaeological record after the Reconquista, which suggests that their occurrence is closely linked to al-Andalus’ culture. They can therefore be considered as a unique production in al-Andalus’ pottery. However, archaeological literature tends to ignore them. Through this study, we would like to draw archaeologists’ attention to the important presence of drums in Andalusian archaeological contexts while proposing possibilities for their classification, based on a typological and taxonomical study.
SOMA 2012 Identity and Connectivity Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Florence, Italy, 1–3 March 2012.
A Classification of Clay Drums from al-Andalus (9th-14th Centuries AD)In this paper, we will propose a classification of al-Andalus clay drums (9th-14th Centuries AD) as a first approach for a music archaeological study of this important amount of findings. These drums, which appear all over the territories that were under Muslim rule during the Middle Ages, mirroring al-Andalus’ archaeological map, constitute a very special corpus. The number of findings suggests that these instruments were produced on a relatively large scale in al-Andalus. Nevertheless, they disappear from the archaeological record after the Reconquista, which suggests that their occurrence was closely linked with the al-Andalus’ culture. However, archaeological literature tends to ignore them. Through this study, we would like to drawarchaeologists’ attention to the important presence of drums in Andalusian archaeological contexts while proposing possibilities for their classification, based on a typological and taxonomical study.
12th Symposium of the International Study Group on Music Archaeology
Medieval Clay Drums Recovered in the Portuguese Al Andalus. New Leads and Contributions to Music Archeology2023 •
While similar studies have been conducted for the Spanish territory, Music Archaeology concerning the Portuguese Islamic Medieval period is still in an emergent state. In fact, although the Archaeology of Portuguese Al-Andalus has provided invaluable studies relating to musical instruments, an in-depth articulation with Musicology is long due. In this endeavour, the study of archaeologically recovered clay drums is of special significance. It is important to precisely quantify how many clay drums have been found in the Portuguese Al-Andalus, to ascertain their main common characteristics, and to hypothesise what new research lines they open. The archaeological record is sparse but invaluable, a crucial resource for answering these questions. In this paper, apart from the description of the recovered drums, an articulation with coeval written, iconographic, and archaeological sources is essayed. This paper aims to contribute to the historiography of sound and music, and their influence on the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Keywords: al-Andalus, Medieval Musical Instruments, Clay Drums, Music Archaeology, Middle Ages, Heritage.
In 2016, Ricardo Eichmann, Fang Jinjuan, Lars-Christian Koch (eds.) Studien zur Musikarchäologie X, DAI Orient Archäologie
Music and Identities Al-Andalus Clay Drums and the Study of Popular Musical Behaviors Through the Archaeological Record2016 •
In 2012, Ricardo Eichmann, Fang Jinjuan, Lars-Christian Koch (eds.) Studien zur Musikarchäologie VIII, DAI Orient Archäologie 25. Rahden/Westf: 215-225.
“The Lyres of the Far West: Chordophones on the Bronze Age Warrior Stelae of the Southwest of the Iberian Peninsula”2012 •
Eine wichtige Quelle für die Kenntnisse über die spätbronzezeitliche Gesellschaft der Iberischen Halbinsel sind die Kriegerstelen aus dem Südwesten. Ihre Chronologie und kulturelle Einordnung sind jedoch unklar. Musikinstrumente wie Leiern, Klappern, Chalkophone gehören zu den dargestellten Attributen und Prestigeobjekten der Krieger. Eine eingehende organologische Untersuchung der dargestellten Instrumente erlaubt, die Datierung der Stelen und ihre kulturelle Bedeutung zu präzisieren. In diesem Artikel werden die Musikinstrumente hinsichtlich ihrer Morphologie und ihrer Kontexte klassifiziert und ihre Zuschreibung zu musikalischen Aktivitäten auf einigen Darstellungen diskutiert. Ebenso werden Analogien aus dem mediterranen Raum vorgestellt mit dem Ziel, ihren möglichen kulturellen Ursprung zu klären. The stelae of the southwest form a very important source of knowledge about late Bronze Age society in the Iberian Peninsula. However, agreement among scholars regarding their chronology and cultural placement is far from being attempted. Musical instruments such as lyres, crotals and calcophones appear among the warrior’s panoply and prestige objects. Lyres in particular continue to be a subject of debate as scholars interpret their origin depending on their particular view of the Spanish precolonial and colonial world. Nevertheless, through a deeper organological evaluation some questions regarding the dating of the stelae and their cultural meaning may be answered. In this article we will classify the musical instruments considering their morphology and contexts and we will discuss the ascription to musical activities of some of the representations. We will also propose analogies in the Mediterranean frame to try to clarify their possible cultural origin.
n° 115 - Percussions antiques. Organologie – Perceptions - Polyvalence / L’affichage de la parenté dans le monde antique Auteur : Arnaud SAURA-ZIEGELMEYER (coord. Dossier 1), Karine KARILA-COHEN, Jérôme WILGAUX (coord. Dossier 2) N° ISBN : 978-2-8107-0730-0 Percussion instruments are spread across a broad geographical space and a wide chronological spectrum in the ancient world. Yet it is only recently that percussion instruments have been considered in connection with the contexts of their discovery and their use in performance places and spaces in order to understand their functions in sacred, domestic, and funerary spheres. The difficulty in treating the question of location arises from the fact that, in many cases, it is complicated to establish the precise dating and location of instruments in a given space and this specific location's particular meaning. However, when percussion instruments survive in an archaeological context along with images, inscriptions, and possibly other written sources, it is possible to outline the aspects of the occasion for which they were played and offered within a ritual performance; they serve as valuable pieces of evidence not only for reconstruction of their function in religious and social practices, but also for enriching our understanding of music and dance performances in daily life of the past. Thus, through an archaeomusicological approach to performance which places musical and choral activities within an actual or symbolic space, the study of percussion instruments constitutes a valuable subject of investigation to shed light on the ritual meaning and social function of sonic events, as well as on the role of musicians and dancers in antiquity. This volume, which consists of the proceedings of a workshop held at the University of Toulouse II Jean Jaurès in January 2019, shows how the study of percussion instruments has involved a wide variety of specialists within and beyond the boundaries of anthropology and archaeology, sound studies and archaeomusicology (including, among others, ethnoarchaeomusicologists), as well as history of religion, classics, and history. In organising the workshop, Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer was particularly concerned with approaching the subject from as global a perspective as possible, and was therefore eager to focus on work outside his own particular area of expertise, namely, the Greek and Roman worlds. Thus, the essays included in this publication represent a significant number of geographical areas and cultures of the ancient world, including the Mediterranean, the PALLAS, 115, 2020, PP. 19-23
Medieval Archaeology has grown significantly in Portugal since 1987. This results mainly from a twofold fact: the increasing number of archaeological excavations in the framework of salvage projects and the development of systematic research projects. Despite the recent appearance of Medieval Archaeology in Portuguese archaeological research, the present synthesis is however preceded by a few others that have been published in the last few years (CATARINO, 1995/97, 2002; FONTES, 2002; GOMES, 2002; FERNANDES, 2005a; FERNANDES, MACIAS, 2011). None of these was— or aimed to be —an exhaustive overview. And, once again, this contribution will not, nor could, approach all the works and publications made in the last 30 years. It is interesting to notice that somehow these syntheses reflect the bifocal tendency that can be observed on the subject. As in Spain, Medieval Archaeology in Portugal emerged and developed within two perspectives: the archaeology of Islamic spaces, where the topics of ceramic studies, urbanism and fortifications were the most relevant; and the archaeology of the Christian communities, that focused on the first built manifestations of Christianity (necropolises and temples) and settlement systems, whose approach is closely connected to the study of rock-cut graves, fortifications, and monasteries and churches dated to the beginnings of Portuguese nationality. In the latter, the research is still marked by studies within the History of Art. In my opinion, 1992 indelibly marks the destiny of Medieval Archaeology in the country. Several scientific and social events took place in that year, a fact that enhanced a greater investment in this domain and encouraged researchers. This year also featured the publication of the first volume of the Portuguese journal Arqueologia Medieval (“Medieval Archaeology”) by Mértola’s Archaeological Field. Again in 1992, the “Fourth Meeting of Peninsular Christian Archaeology” took place in Portugal, with the proceedings being published in 1995. Most of the contributions focused on excavation results from Portuguese sites, including an important collection of data on Paleo-Christian contexts. Indeed, the 1990’s marked an important turning point in Medieval Archaeology in the country. A number of factors can be put forward. One was the increasing number of archaeological fieldworks, mainly salvage excavations in urban contexts but also in the framework of the Alqueva Dam megaproject of salvage archaeology. The creation of the Portuguese Institute for Archaeology in 1997 pushed this tendency even further and allowed the funding of multiannual research projects aiming at the study of diverse topics, such as churches and monasteries, regional settlement systems, necropolises, cities and castles. The topic of Medieval fortifications resulted in many publications and archaeological excavations. Already focused by C. A. Ferreira de Almeida (1979), it was followed by M. J. Barroca, who published several relevant papers on the subject (1990/91, 1996/1997, 2003, 2004, 2008/2009). The increase in number of excavation works in Early Medieval churches and monasteries allowed new insights and interpretations on their architectonic and decorative evolutions, which in turn provided new bases for the enrichment of these monuments’ museological discourse. This growing trend in Medieval Archaeology can also be observed in projects focusing settlement systems of given geographical areas or centred in single archaeological sites. Systematic studies of necropolises and rock-cut graves were also carried out. Despite the fact that many researchers attempted to go further than record field data, the most recent theoretical leap is due to I. Martín Viso, who developed new perspectives on the analysis and interpretation of these Early Medieval funerary structures, that are very abundant in the Portuguese territory (MARTÍN VISO, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2017; TENTE, 2015, 2017a). Regarding material culture studies, a substantial development also took place with the increase of publications and thematic meetings, in particular those focusing pottery collections. Unfortunately, the latter are not always accompanied by complete studies of their assemblages—relevance is often paid to exceptional pieces or partial assemblages, thus preventing systematic, comparative studies. Islamic productions have been retaining most of the researchers’ attention. Another topic with a remarkable growth in the last years has been the archaeology of architectures, mostly of religious buildings and castles. According to official regulations, the participation of bio-anthropologists in the excavation of funerary contexts is mandatory in Portugal since 1999. This legal obligation, which runs in parallel with the increasing number of excavations, decisively boosted bio-anthropological and mortuary studies from archaeological contexts. An important development is also noticeable in the study of subsistence strategies, namely based on palaeobotanic and zooarchaeological data. These, however, are still far from systematic. To a great extent, these studies have been limited by the employed field methodologies that often ignore the scientific value of such type of evidence. More than in the case of macrofaunal remains, the (almost) invisibility of botanic and microfaunal remains lies at the core of their (almost) absence in current research. Studies have been more abundant in the domain of zooarchaeology. Here too a stronger focus on Islamic contexts is noticeable, to some extent related to contrasting taphonomic conditions, that are more favourable to organic preservation in the southern half of the country where the presence of Muslim communities was longer and research has been more intensive. Despite the growing number of publications and scientific meetings in the last 30 years, the countless number of field works was not always accompanied by the respective publications. Some of the main published studies can be found in the Bibliography, where the main references are cited. It is also worth mentioning that syntheses, either general or regional, are still lacking. This fact converges into another limitation, which is the scarcity of theoretical reflection that would allow interpretative models to be put forward and the building of a problematizing historical knowledge. However, the future seems promising and it is hoped that the above limitations may be surpassed in the next decades as, in Portugal, we are presently witnessing an increase of academic training in this specific research area.
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Flower world is a new series edited by Arnd Adje Both and Matthias Stöckli which focuses on ancient music and music-related activities in Pre-Columbian Americas. The title Flower World refers to the sacred place and mythological world in ancient Mesoamerica. The main topic of the series is in archaeomusicology and its new methods and theoretical debates as the archaeology of senses and archaeoacoustics. In his preface Adje Both discusses the " ethnoarchaeological problem " when showing the difficulties of searching for analogies and similarities of ancient Pre-Columbian musical praxis in musical activities of recent Amerindian groups. Both's introduction to the series is followed by Matthias Stöckli's preface to the first edition, as he presents the eight articles. He argues, as well as Both, that the unifying aim is to reveal the existence of important cultural aspects of pre-Columbian music making with musical activities of recent Amerindian groups. So the first contribution, entitled " Ancient Pututus Contextualized: Integrative Achaeoacoustics at Chavín de Huántar, Peru " , is written by Miriam A. Kolar, John W. Prick, R. Cook and Jonthan Abel. The " integrative " part here is reflected by the method used. Therefore, the sound possibilities of the pututus (horn shells/strombus galeatus) were measured and related to the landscape as well as to the building complex of the archaeological site (approx.1200-500 BC). The interaction between sound perception and sound production is analysed by interpretations of graphical/iconographical representations, physical and acoustic analyses of the shell horns artefact comparative ethnographic surveys of similar aerophones, observational tests in associated contexts and contextualized psycho-acoustic experimentation with recorded shell horn artefact or replica sound stimuli. The authors point out that the architectural construction of three tubes had been designed to transmit frequencies of 500-1000 Hz, a spectrum which fits perfectly the one of the shell horns.
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