p3417

TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with cymbals, representing the 2nd tone of the church scale (hypodorian)

TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief

DATE: 1089

DATE DETAILS: approx.

COMMENTS: Two columns in the chapell bear on their four sides symbolic representations of the eight tones of the Gregorian church scale. The 2nd tone is represented by a dancer with cymbals in the forl of shell

LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France

KEYWORDS: religion