Arab Music : : a Survey of Its History and Its Modern Practice.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2021. ©2021. |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (212 pages) |
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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.