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Arab music : a survey of its history and its modern practice /

Is primarily meant for the general Western reader with some basic knowledge of music and music notation. It aims at correcting the still prevalent romantic image of Arab music, spread in the 19th century, as exotic and typified by long, plaintive and erotic sounding melodic lines and inciting rhythm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Plenckers, Leo J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1: Historical background
  • Introduction
  • The legacy of past centuries
  • Egypt and Mesopotamia
  • From the third century BCE to the seventh century CE
  • Arab music before the arrival of the Islam
  • The Bedouins
  • Mecca and Medina
  • Musical instruments
  • The early Islamic period and the Umayyad Caliphate (600-750)
  • The muḳannaṯ
  • Damascus
  • The Golden Age of the Abbasids (eighth and ninth centuries)
  • Music at the court of Harun ar-Rasid
  • The emergence of Andalusia
  • The beginning of the Andalusian music tradition: Ziryāb
  • Music theory
  • The tenth to the thirteenth century
  • Music theory in the Mashriq
  • Al-Fārābī
  • Al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad
  • Ibn Sīnā
  • Developments since the tenth century in the Maghreb
  • From circa 1250 to 1600
  • Musical life
  • Music theory
  • The basic tone range
  • The basic scales jins and šadd
  • Transposition of modes
  • Rhythm
  • Forms of compositions
  • The organization of the modes and cosmology
  • Musical instruments
  • From the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century
  • From 1850 to the end of the twentieth century
  • The period of the Arab renaissance, the nahḍa
  • The twentieth century
  • The lyric theatre
  • The music film and Muḥammad ʻAbdū-l-Wahhāb
  • The radio and Umm Kulthūm
  • The turāṯ or musical heritage
  • The seventies, a change of generations
  • Part 2: The modern time
  • Introduction
  • The tone system
  • Temperament
  • The jins
  • The maqām
  • The number of maqāmāt
  • The tonal structure of a maqām
  • The main maqāmāt
  • Rāst
  • Bayātī
  • Sabā
  • Sīkā
  • Huzām
  • ʻAjām
  • Nahāwand
  • Nawā aṯar
  • Ḥijāz
  • Modulations
  • Meter and rhythm
  • Simple binary awzān
  • Simple ternary awzān
  • Some compound awzān
  • dawr hindi
  • nawakt
  • aqsāq
  • aqsāq ṯaqīl
  • samāʻī ṯaqīl
  • ʻawīs
  • dawr kabīr turki
  • The classical urban music
  • The tradition of Iraq: al-maqām al-ʻirāqī
  • The classical tradition of Syria and Egypt, the waṣla
  • The instrumental forms of the Syrian and Egyptian tradition
  • The taqsīm
  • The samāʻī
  • The bašraf
  • The lūnga
  • The dūlāb
  • The taḥmīla
  • The vocal forms of the Syrian and Egyptian tradition
  • The mawwāl
  • The layālī
  • The dawr
  • The uġniya
  • The muwaššaḥ
  • Classical traditions in North Africa: the nawba
  • The Moroccan nawba tadition
  • The Algerian nawba tradition
  • The Tunisian nawba tradition
  • Popular music
  • Firqa songs
  • The Egyptian šaʻbī
  • The Egyptian gīl
  • The Algerian raï
  • The Moroccan šaʻbī (chaâbi)
  • The Arab hiphop
  • Folk Music
  • The Middle East
  • The Bedouins
  • The sedentary population
  • Non-metrical songs of the sedentary population
  • Metrical songs of the sedentary population
  • The music of the inhabitants of the eastern and southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula
  • The Maghreb
  • Vocal music
  • Instrumental music.