Across Centuries and Cultures

Contents: Amnon Shiloah: King David and the Devil, Initiators of Two Kinds of Music - Mira Waner: Ethnic/Religious Distinction Versus Syncretism in the Musical Culture of Roman and Byzantine Sepphoris: A Case Study in the Musical Culture of Ancient Israel - Jan Steszewski: Mündliche Musiktradition der Juden in Polen: Forschungsaufgaben, Ausgangspunkte, Methodik, Informations- und Quellen-Forschungsstand - Alexander Knapp: The Little Goat Meets the Little Chicken: Parallels Between Two Celebratory Songs in the Jewish and Bukharan Traditions - Bret Werb: Vu ahin zol ikh geyn? Music of Jewish Displaced Persons - Rachel Kollender: Jewish Music in the Holocaust as an Assertion of Plural Identities - Kevin C. Karnes: "Where Space Becomes Time": Music, Landscape, and Memory in the Latvian Rock Opera Lactpl sis - Mikus Ceze: Latvijas Nacionala Opera und ihre Geburtsdeutungen. Das Problem von deplazierten Jubiläen - Dagmara Beitnere: Musicology and Power in the Discourse of Soviet Latvian History and Memory - Ruta Staneviciut : Écriture féminine? On Some Intertextual Gestures in Works by Contemporary Lithuanian Women Composers - Vizbulite B rzi a: "On a Road to Hell": J kabs Graubi s and the Soviet Regime - Werner Bachmann: Die skythisch-sarmatische Harfe aus Olbia: Vorbericht zur Rekonstruktion eines unveröffentlichten und im Kriege verschollenen Musikinstruments - Zdravko Blazekovic: Perseus, the Harp, and the Scimitar: Iconographic Confusion as Evidence for Early Terminology for the Harp - Myrna Herzog: The Division Viol: An Overview: Levon Hakobian: Octoëchos as an Idea: On the Example of Medieval Armenian Sacred Hymnody - Dagmar Hoffmann-Axthelm: Simone Martini's Investiture of St. Martin : An Iconographical Approach - Fabio Carboni/Agostino Ziino: Una raccolta di mottetti per Leone X: una scoperta e nuove osservazioni - Levi Sheptovitsky: Two Chromatic Fantasias by John Dowland: Were They Composed as a Pair? - Wolfgang Ruf: Religiöse Musik und Politik: Die Aufführung von Händels "Messias" in Berlin 1786 - Bathia Churgin: Beethoven and the New Development-Theme in Sonata-Form Movements - Frans C. Lemaire : Dimitri Chostakovitch : Rester et résister - Tatyana Kurysheva: Music Criticism as an Art of Perception.