Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Owen Wright
- Editor: Harris, Rachel
- Editor: Stokes, Martin
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Contents
- Introduction - Tuning the Past: The Work of Owen Wright
- Martin Stokes
- Part I: Ottoman Legacies
- 1 New Light on Cantemir
- Eckhard Neubauer
- 2 Towards a New Theory of Historical Change in the Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire
- Jacob Olley
- 3 Not Just Any Usul: Semai In Pre-Nineteenth-Century Performance Practice
- Mehmet Ugur Ekinci
- 4 Itri's 'Nuhuft Sakil' in the Context of Sakil Pesrevs in the Seventeenth Century
- Walter Feldman
- 5 Giambattista Toderini and the 'Musica Turchesca'
- Giovanni De Zorzi
- 6 At the House of Kemal: Private musical gatherings of Istanbul from the late Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic
- Panagiotis C. Poulos
- 7 Kar-i Nev: Elongation and Elaboration in Recordings of a Turkish Classic
- John O'Connell
- 8 Measuring intervals between European and 'Eastern' musics in the 1920s: The curious case of the panharmonion or 'Greek organ'
- Eleni Kallimopoulou
- Part II: Historical and theoretical themes in the music of the Islamic world
- 9 "Words Without Songs": The social history of Hindustani song collections in India's Muslim courts c.1770-1830
- Katherine Butler Schofield
- 10 The music of the Timurids and its legacy in Afghanistan
- John Baily
- 11 Theory and practice in contemporary Central Asian maqam traditions: the Uyghur On Ikki Muqam and the Kashmiri Sufyana Musiqi
- Rachel Harris
- 12 The Terminology of Vocal Performance in Iranian Khorasan
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