Jeffers Engelhardt

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Music Studies | Professor at Amherst College | Editor-In-Chief, Yale Journal of Music & Religion | (he/him)

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Yale Journal of Music & Religion | Yale University

Scholarly, peer-reviewed journal providing scholarship on religious music of all traditions across a range of methodologies.

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Call for Translations | Yale Journal of Music & Religion

The YJMR invites proposals to publish English translations of primary sources, scholarship, essays, and commentaries related to the study of sacred music and its ritual, artistic, and cultural worlds.

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Yale Journal of Music & Religion 8.2 now published!

Articles and reviews on the harmonium in missionary hymns and kirtan, 15th c. Dominican processionals, 1/2 special sections on hymns and race beyond the congregation, and much more. #music #musicology #ethnomusicology #religion #religiousstudies

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Yale Journal of Music & Religion | Yale University

Scholarly, peer-reviewed journal providing scholarship on religious music of all traditions across a range of methodologies.

9-Jun-2023
The first prehistoric wind instruments discovered in the Levant
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/991918 "The discovery of these 12,000 -year-old aerophones is extremely rare – in fact, they are the first to be discovered in the Near East. The “#flutes”, made from the bones of a small waterfowl, produce a sound similar to certain birds of prey (Eurasian sparrowhawk and common kestrel) when air is blown into them." #science #archaeology #MusicalInstruments #WindInstruments #Woodwind
The first prehistoric wind instruments discovered in the Levant

Although the prehistoric site of Eynan-Mallaha in northern Israel has been thoroughly examined since 1955, it still holds some surprises for scientists. Seven prehistoric wind instruments known as flutes, recently identified by a Franco-Israeli team, are the subject of an article published on 9 June in Nature Scientific Reports. The discovery of these 12,000 -year-old aerophones is extremely rare – in fact, they are the first to be discovered in the Near East.

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