This book looks at the ranks, badges and uniforms worn by Turkish, and other European Janissary in the 18th Century. The follow-on Volume II of this book looks
This book looks at the ranks, badges and uniforms worn by Turkish, and other European Janissary in the 18th Century. The follow-on Volume II of this book looks
The Janissaries comprised an élite corps in the service of the Ottoman Empire. It was composed of war captives and Christian youths pressed into service; all o
Music in the California missions was a pluralistic combination of voices and instruments, of liturgy and spectacle, of styles and functions - and even of cultur
This book considers the activities and writings of early song collectors and proto-ethnomusicologists, memoirists, and other "musical travelers" in 19th-century