Format:
1 Online-Ressource (556 Seiten)
ISBN:
9789004279094
Series Statement:
Islamic history and civilization volume 110
Content:
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.
Content:
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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004277502
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als (online) ISBN 9789004279094
Language:
English
Keywords:
Abu-'l-Faraǧ al-Iṣfahānī, ʿAlī Ibn-al-Ḥusain 897-967 Kitāb al-aġānī
DOI:
10.1163/9789004279094
Author information:
Abu-'l-Faraǧ al-Iṣfahānī, ʿAlī Ibn-al-Ḥusain 897-967
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