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An Arabic musical and socio-cultural glossary of Kitab al-Aghani / by George Dimitri Sawa.
قاموس كتاب الأغاني للإصبهاني : قاموس موسيقي واجتماعي لقصص المطربين والعازفين تأليف جورج ديمتري صاوة.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sawa, George, 1947- author.
- Series:
- Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 110.
- Islamic History and Civilization : Studies and Texts, 0929-2403 ; Volume 110
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Arab countries--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Music--Terminology.
- Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī, 897 or 898-967. Kitāb al-aghānī.
- Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (576 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2015.
- ليدن : دار بريل للنشر، 2015.
- Language Note:
- Arabic with English abstract
- Summary:
- George Dimitri Sawa’s Arabic Musical and Socio-Cultural Glossary of Kitāb al-Aghānī is the first comprehensive lexicographical study of Umayyad and early Abbāsid-era music theory and practices. It defines melodic and rhythmic modes, musical forms, instruments, technical terms and metaphors used in evaluating compositions and performances, and the emotional effects of ṭarab. It explains the processes of composition and learning, performance practice, musical change and aesthetics, and addresses the behavior of court musicians to help understand societal views of music. Medieval dictionaries, reference works on Arabic literature, theoretical treatises as well as full quotations from the Aghānī are used. This glossary will be of interest to scholars and students of the music and socio-cultural history of the early Islamic era.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī and George Dimitri Sawa
- Introduction
- Arabic preliminaries / Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī and George Dimitri Sawa
- Arabic Introduction مقدمة الكتاب
- Glossary of Kitāb al-Aghānī قاموس كتاب الأغاني
- Arabic and Persian References المراجع العربية والفارسية
- Tables جداول.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 3-6 ).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789004279094
- 9004279091
- OCLC:
- 945612659
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004279094 DOI
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