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 touch...

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.