Dimension of Music in Islamic and Jewish Culture

Name: Dimension of Music in Islamic and Jewish Culture
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ISBN: 9780860783527

ISBN-10: 0860783529

ISBN-13: 9780860783527

Edition: 1993

Authors: Amnon Shiloah

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Book details

List price: $175.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/22/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Un ancien traitï¿½ sur le 'ud d'Abu Yusuf al Kindi


The 'ud and the origin of music


The epistle on music of the Ikhwan al-Safa


The musical passage in ibn Ezra's 'Book of the Garden'


Ibn Hindu, le mï¿½dicin et la musique


Musical modes and the medical dimension: the Arabic sources (c.900-c.1600)


Deux textes arabes inï¿½dits sur la musique


Un "problï¿½me musical" inconnu de Thabit ibn Qurra


The Arabic concept of mode


Music in the pre-Islamic period as reflected in Arabic writings of the first Islamic centuries


Techniques of scholarship in medieval Arabic musical treatises


The attitude towards music of Jewish religious authorities


The symbolism of music in the Kabbalistic tradition


La voix et les techniques vocales chez les Arabes


An 18th-century critic of music and good taste


Index