Arab Music : : a Survey of Its History and Its Modern Practice.

• Author: Plenckers, Leo.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (212 pages)

This book offers a comprehensive survey of the history and the development of Arab music and musical theory from its pre-Islamic roots until 1970, as well as a discussion of the major genres and forms practiced today, such as the Egyptian gīl, the Algerian raï and Palestinian hip hop; it also touches upon musical instruments and folk music.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- 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 -- Music theory -- The beginning of the Andalusian music tradition: Ziryāb -- 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 ʿAbdū-l-Wahhāb -- The radio and Umm Kulthūm -- The turāṯ or musical heritage -- The seventies, a change of generations -- Part 2 -- 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 -- - Sīkā -- - Huzām -- - Sabā -- - Nahāwand -- - Nawā aṯar -- - ʿAjām -- - Ḥijāz -- Modulations -- Meter and rhythm -- Simple binary awzān -- Simple ternary awzān -- Some compound awzān -- aqsāq ṯaqīl: -- aqsāq: -- dawr hindī: -- nawaḳt: -- dawr kabīr turkī:.

samāʿī ṯaqīl: -- ʿawīs: -- The classical urban music -- The tradition of Iraq: al-maqām al-ʿirāqī -- The classical tradition of Syria and Egypt, the waṣla -- The instrumental forms of the Syrian and Egyptian tradition -- The taqsīm -- The bašraf -- The samāʿī -- The lūnga -- The dūlāb -- The taḥmīla -- The vocal forms of the Syrian and Egyptian tradition -- The mawwāl -- The dawr -- The layālī -- 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 šaʿbī -- The Egyptian gīl -- The Algerian raï -- The Moroccan šaʿbī (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 -- Bibliography -- Discography -- List of recorded music -- Websites -- Index.