Bourdonnements des insectes et musique de David : image sonore de l’Éthiopie chez le père franciscain Remedius Prutký (1752)

This article analyses the accoustic images of Ethiopia given by the Franciscan father Remedius Prutky in his travelogue Itinerarium, written in the mid-17th c., a text recently edited and translated. A sensory-oriented reading of this text is possible by paying attention to the way the catholic miss...

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Main Author: Anne Damon-Guillot
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Language:deu
Published: Institut des Mondes Africains 2014-11-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/afriques/1521
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description This article analyses the accoustic images of Ethiopia given by the Franciscan father Remedius Prutky in his travelogue Itinerarium, written in the mid-17th c., a text recently edited and translated. A sensory-oriented reading of this text is possible by paying attention to the way the catholic missionary "hears" orthodox Christian Ethiopia. This yields a new, sensory understanding of the perception of otherness. Prutky, in masterful rhetoric, ascribes high symbolical value, very often biblical, to the sounds he heard in Ethiopia. His aim was partisan: to give audible form to the heresy of the Ethiopian Christianity. Nonetheless, his description of Ethiopian musical practices, especially in religious contexts, are of great interest for historical musicology.
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Bourdonnements des insectes et musique de David : image sonore de l’Éthiopie chez le père franciscain Remedius Prutký (1752)
Afriques
Ethiopia
music
accoustic image
Catholic mission
Remedius Prutky
King David
title Bourdonnements des insectes et musique de David : image sonore de l’Éthiopie chez le père franciscain Remedius Prutký (1752)
title_full Bourdonnements des insectes et musique de David : image sonore de l’Éthiopie chez le père franciscain Remedius Prutký (1752)
title_fullStr Bourdonnements des insectes et musique de David : image sonore de l’Éthiopie chez le père franciscain Remedius Prutký (1752)
title_full_unstemmed Bourdonnements des insectes et musique de David : image sonore de l’Éthiopie chez le père franciscain Remedius Prutký (1752)
title_short Bourdonnements des insectes et musique de David : image sonore de l’Éthiopie chez le père franciscain Remedius Prutký (1752)
title_sort bourdonnements des insectes et musique de david image sonore de l ethiopie chez le pere franciscain remedius prutky 1752
topic Ethiopia
music
accoustic image
Catholic mission
Remedius Prutky
King David
url https://journals.openedition.org/afriques/1521
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