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Forgiare la musica. Da Tubal-Kain ai mastri ferrai siciliani

2021

The idea of the “blacksmith musician” was widely spread in the ancient world: from the biblical myth of the blacksmith Tubal-Kain, half-brother of Jubal, inventor of musical instruments (lyre, psaltery, flute), to the legend handed down in Helleno-Latin literature that attributed to Pythagoras the discovery of musical intervals as he walked past a blacksmith’s forge. In the christianized Europe of the medieval-Renaissance period, the link between music and metallurgy, associated with the biblical blacksmith and the Greek philosopher, undergoes significant reworkings, both in the iconographic tradition and music literature. The ethnological investigation also offers numerous examples of musi…