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Rhythmic theories and practices in Arabic writings to 339 AH/950 CE : annotated translations and commentaries / by George Dimitri Sawa.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML348.2 .S393 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sawa, George, 1947-
- Series:
- Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen (Institute of Mediaeval Music) ; Bd. 93.
- Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen = Musicological studies ; Bd. 93 = vol. XCIII
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arabs--500-1400--Music--History and criticism.
- Arabs.
- Music.
- Arab countries--Music--500-1400--History and criticism.
- Arab countries.
- Musical meter and rhythm.
- Music--500-1400.
- Genre:
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 639 pages : music ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa : Institute of Medieval Music, [2009]
- Summary:
- "The present work is an English translation and commentary on the Arabic treatises on rhythms from the early Islamic era to the middle of the fourth century AH/tenth century CE"--Preface.
- Contents:
- Part one. Theories of the Arab practitioners. Isḥāq al-Mawṣilī on the Medieval Arabic īqāʻāt
- Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī : commentary on the rhythmic writings of Isḥāq al-Mawṣilī and Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mahdī in The book of songs
- Manṣūr ibn Ṭalḥa's definitions of the īqāʻāt in al-Fārābī's KII
- Ibn Khurdādhba on the īqāʻāt
- Al-Baṭaliawsī on the īqāʻāt.
- Part two. The fusion of Arabic and Greek theories. Al-Kindī on the īqāʻāt
- Al-Fārābī's Grand book of music. First chapter on rhythms
- Al-Fārābī's Grand book of music. Second chapter on rhythms
- Rhythmic alterations to the fundamentals
- The book of rhythms
- The book for the basic comprehension of rhythms
- The language of al-Fārābī and its sources
- Pedigree of the sources
- Summary of the basic īqāʻāt : a comparative approach to the sources
- Al-Fārābī's rhythmic variations
- Al-Kindī's appendix
- Concluding remarks.
- Notes:
- Includes Arabic-English, English-Arabic, and Greek-Arabic-English glossaries.
- Includes bibliography (pages 582-593) and index.
- Contains:
- Fārābī. Kitāb al-mūsīqā al-kabīr. Selections.
- ISBN:
- 1896926983
- 9781896926988
- OCLC:
- 468974596
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