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T1 Sounds of copper and bronze : metonymies of copper and bronze as sound objects in the Ancient World
A1 Sánchez Muñoz, Daniel
K1 Arqueomusicología
K1 Metalurgia
K1 Figuras retóricas
K1 Mesopotamia
K1 Grecia
K1 Roma
K1 Metonymies
K1 Copper
K1 Bronze
K1 Bells
K1 Cymbals
K1 Trumpets
K1 5505.10 Filología
K1 5505.01 Arqueología
K1 5505.03 Epigrafía
K1 5505.05 Iconografía
K1 5101.04 Etnomusicología
K1 6203.06 Música, Musicología
K1 5506.13 Historia de la Literatura
K1 5701.07 Lengua y Literatura
AB This article studies excerpts from different textual traditions in the Ancient World (Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome besides some remarks about China) where the name of a musical instrument is substituted by a word for ‘copper’ and/or ‘bronze’, that is, metonymies connecting musical instruments with their elaboration materials. For each case, the possible instrument mentioned under the metonymy is identified, considering the context of the excerpt and supplementary references. As for the conclusions, while ancient people agreed in seeing some natural properties for these materials, the musical instruments mentioned as ‘copper’/‘bronze’ are, however, very different in each cultural area. That speaks in favour of not considering materials elaborating musical instruments as something ‘objective’. Far from that, those materials should be holistically studied, including here cultural or socio-economic reasons explaining their election for creating a musical instrument.
PB Fabrizio Serra editore
SN 2785-1370
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/81758
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/81758
LA eng
NO Telestes, 2022, vol. 2, p. 13-25
DS UVaDOC
RD 18-ene-2026