Islamic contributions to music

On my bookshelf there are two books which talk at length about this
issue... they are:

The Music of the Arabs
by Habib Hassan Touma

and

Sufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context, and Meaning
by Regula Burckhardt Qureshi

Interestingly, neither of these appears in the bibliography of
microtonality at

http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/doc/bib.html

--Bill Sethares

Bill Sethares wrote:

> On my bookshelf there are two books which talk at length about this
> issue... they are:
>
> The Music of the Arabs
> by Habib Hassan Touma
>
> and
>
> Sufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context, and Meaning
> by Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
>
> Interestingly, neither of these appears in the bibliography of
> microtonality at
>
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/doc/bib.html

An online source I'd recommend as a general primer on music in Islam: http://www.muslimheritage.com/uploads/Music2.pdf.

I've read Touma's book, but it was a while ago. He's the one that called 2^(1/53) the "Arabic comma".

~D.

and also :

- http://www.astrolabe.com/product/2018/A_History_of_Arabian_Music.html by H.G.Farmer
- Wright, O., "The Modal System of Arab and Persian Music AD 1250-1300", Oxford University Press, 1978
- Zonis, Ella, "Classical Persian Music, An Introduction", Harvard University Press, 1973.
History of Persian music -- mostly from a modern perspective. Short section on drum history and a short appendix on rhythmic analysis based on Farmer's analysis of early works.
- Sachs, Curt, "The Rise of Music in the Ancient World East and West", W.W.Norton and Co, 1943.

Shaahin Mohajeri

Tombak Player & Researcher , Microtonal Composer

My web site?? ???? ????? ?????? <http://240edo.googlepages.com/>

My farsi page in Harmonytalk ???? ??????? ?? ??????? ??? <http://www.harmonytalk.com/mohajeri>

Shaahin Mohajeri in Wikipedia ????? ?????? ??????? ??????? ???? ???? <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaahin_mohajeri>

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From: tuning@yahoogroups.com [mailto:tuning@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bill Sethares
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 4:42 AM
To: tuning@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [tuning] Islamic contributions to music

On my bookshelf there are two books which talk at length about this
issue... they are:

The Music of the Arabs
by Habib Hassan Touma

and

Sufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context, and Meaning
by Regula Burckhardt Qureshi

Interestingly, neither of these appears in the bibliography of
microtonality at

http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/doc/bib.html <http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/doc/bib.html>

--Bill Sethares

----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Wier" <dawiertx@sbcglobal.net>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 23 Nisan 2007 Pazartesi 6:42
Subject: Re: [tuning] Islamic contributions to music

> Bill Sethares wrote:
>
> > On my bookshelf there are two books which talk at length about this
> > issue... they are:
> >
> > The Music of the Arabs
> > by Habib Hassan Touma
> >
> > and
> >
> > Sufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context, and Meaning
> > by Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
> >
> > Interestingly, neither of these appears in the bibliography of
> > microtonality at
> >
> > http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/doc/bib.html
>
> An online source I'd recommend as a general primer on music in Islam:
> http://www.muslimheritage.com/uploads/Music2.pdf.
>
> I've read Touma's book, but it was a while ago. He's the one that called
> 2^(1/53) the "Arabic comma".
>
> ~D.
>
>

Was I not the one who has shown relevant passages on that very recently?

Oz.

Ozan Yarman wrote:

[me]

>> An online source I'd recommend as a general primer on music in Islam:
>> http://www.muslimheritage.com/uploads/Music2.pdf.
>>
>> I've read Touma's book, but it was a while ago. He's the one that called
>> 2^(1/53) the "Arabic comma".
>>
>> ~D.
>
> Was I not the one who has shown relevant passages on that very recently?
>
> Oz.

Yes, I believe it was you! I owe you credit then. ���)

~D.