1st Edition
Aural Architecture in Byzantium: Music, Acoustics, and Ritual
Introduction
Bissera V. Pentcheva
1. Aural Architecture in Jerusalem, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria
Peter Jeffery
2. The Great Outdoors: Liturgical Encounters with the Early Medieval Armenian Church
Christina Maranci
3. Byzantine Chant Notation: Written Documents in an Aural Tradition
Christian Troelsgård
4. Understanding Liturgy in the Byzantine Liturgical Commentaries
Walter D. Ray
5. Christ’s All-Seeing Eye in the Dome
Ravinder Binning
6. Transfigured: Mosaic and Liturgy at Nea Moni
Lora Webb
7. We Who Musically Represent the Cherubim
Laura Steenberge
8. Spatial Embodiment and Agency in Ekphraseis of Church Buildings
Ruth Webb
9. The Acoustics of Hagia Sophia: A Scientific Approach to the Humanities and Sacred Space
Wieslaw Woszczyk
10. Live Auralization of Cappella Romana at the Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Jonathan S. Abel and Kurt Werner
Biography
Bissera V. Pentcheva is professor of medieval art at Stanford University, USA. She has published three books to date: Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium, The Sensual Icon: Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium, and Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium. Her articles on phenomenology and aesthetics of medieval art have appeared in the Art Bulletin, Gesta, Speculum, RES Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics, Performance Research International, and Dumbarton Oaks Papers.
