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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.
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.