Sense and Sadness: Syriac Chant in Aleppo

Contents

• Preface
• Telling history in motion
• Dismantled machinery
• Illusive empowerment
• Part One
• Modes of Thinking
• Chapter I
• Emotion and the Aesthetic
• [Snapshot]
• Emotion and the Economy of Aesthetics
• The emotional economy of aesthetics
• A living music
• Central marginality
• Music complexity
• Mode as metaphor
• Understanding through imagination
• A dynamic outlook on method
• [Snapshot]
• A scholarship of emotion
• Discursive subjectivities
• Scholar(ship) and subject(s)
• Situationality as liminality
• Aestheticizing the emotional
• Chapter II
• Edessan Christians in Hayy al-Suryan
• Unique sounds, against historic odds
• Syriac liturgy and theology
• Modern Christianity with ancient roots
• Begging pardon: Shubqono
• Forty times Forty Bows
• Early asceticism for modern worshippers
• Body, voice, and gendered spaces
• Part Two
• Modes of Knowledge
• Chapter III
• Eight Old Syriac Modes
• Definitions and tools
• Conventional European tools
• Local tools
• Music book and ontological value
• Written Sources
• The Ethicon and The Pearls
• Suryani musicology
• Tableau sans ombres
• Re-shifting focus
• Chapter IV
• Chant As Local Knowledge
• Contested modality
• A monastic perspective
• Music knowledge and Hayy al-Suryan
• Transcription
• Theoretical issues
• Local challenges
• Handwriting tradition
• Knowledge, modality, and influences
• Part Three
• Modes of Value
• Chapter V
• Suryaniness
• Ethnic spirituality
• Place/space and Urfa/Edessa
• Language
• Sound originality
• Sacred texts
• Sacred melodies
• Chapter VI
• Performing Value
• The Washing of the Feet
• Building up sadness
• Chapter VII
• Authority
• Performing authority
• [Snapshot] Value, one morning, and a camera
• Voicing authority
• Performative complexity
• Part Four
• Modalities of Song and Emotion
• Chapter VIII
• Hasho
• Huzn as religious aesthetic
• Hasho, a Syriac term
• Canonic sadness
• Aestheticized emotionality
• By the cross
• Hasho, the mode
• Epilogue
• Non-Conclusions
• Glossary
• References