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Inside Arabic Music: Arabic Maqam Performance and Theory in the 20th Century

‏158.00 ₪
ISBN13
9780190658366
יצא לאור ב
New York
עמודים
464
פורמט
Paperback / softback
תאריך יציאה לאור
17 בספט׳ 2019
Inside Arabic Music is a comprehensive introduction to Arabic music, theory, and performance. Basing their work largely on oral traditions of performance practice, renowned musicians Johnny Farraj and Sami Abu Shumays cover melodic and percussion instruments, vocal and instrumental forms, ornamentation, improvisation, rhythm, ensembles and arrangement, the Arabic Maqam, the tuning system, and Tarab.
What makes hundreds of listeners cheer ecstatically at the same instant during a live concert by Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum? What is the unspoken language behind a taqsim (traditional instrumental improvisation) that performers and listeners implicitly know? How can Arabic music be so rich and diverse without resorting to harmony? Why is it so challenging to transcribe Arabic music from a recording? Inside Arabic Music answers these and many other questions from the perspective of two "insiders" to the practice of Arabic music, by documenting a performance culture and a know-how that is largely passed on orally. Arabic music has spread across the globe, influencing music from Greece all the way to India in the mid-20th century through radio and musical cinema, and global popular culture through Raqs Sharqi, known as "Bellydance" in the West. Yet despite its popularity and influence, Arabic music, and the maqam scale system at its heart, remain widely misunderstood. Inside Arabic Music de-mystifies maqam with an approach that draws theory directly from practice, and presents theoretical insights that will be useful to practitioners, from the beginner to the expert - as well as those interested in the related Persian, Central Asian, and Turkish makam traditions. Inside Arabic Music's discussion of maqam and improvisation widens general understanding of music as well, by bringing in ideas from Saussurean linguistics, network theory, and Lakoff and Johnson's theory of cognition as metaphor, with an approach parallel to Gjerdingen's analysis of Galant-period music - offering a lens into the deeper relationships among music, culture, and human community.
מידע נוסף
עמודים 464
פורמט Paperback / softback
ISBN10 0190658363
יצא לאור ב New York
תאריך יציאה לאור 17 בספט׳ 2019
תוכן עניינים Introduction 1 Melodic Instruments 2 Arabized Instruments 3 Percussion Instruments 4 Ensembles 5 Ornamentation 6 Rhythm 7 A Sampling of Arabic Iqa'at 8 Song Forms 9 Instrumental Forms 10 Arrangement 11 Tuning System 12 Notation 13 The Jins 14 The Most Common Ajnas 15 Less Common Ajnas 16 Newly Classified Ajnas 17 The Maqam 18 The Maqam Scale 19 Modulation 20 Sayr 21 The Taqsim 22 Vocal Improvisation 23 Tarab 24 Maqam Index