Arab Music: A Survey of Its History and Its Modern Practice

Contents

• Sources of illustrations ;
• Foreword ;
• Recorded Music ;
• Transliteration of the Arabic letters ;
• Introduction ;
• Part I: Historical background ;
• Introduction ;
• The legacy of past centuries ;
• Egypt and Mesopotamia ;
• From the third century BCE to the seventh century CE ;
• Arab music before the arrival of the Islam ;
• The Bedouins ;
• Mecca and Medina ;
• Musical instruments ;
• The early Islamic period and the Umayyad Caliphate (600 - 750) ;
• The mukannat ;
• Damascus ;
• The Golden Age of the Abbasids (eighth and ninth centuries) ;
• Music at the court of Harun ar-Rasid ;
• The emergence of Andalusia ;
• The beginning of the Andalusian music tradition: Ziryab ;
• Music theory ;
• The tenth to the thirteenth century ;
• Music theory in the Mashriq ;
• Developments since the tenth century in the Maghreb ;
• From circa 1250 to 1600 ;
• Musical life ;
• Music Theory ;
• Rhythm ;
• Forms of compositions ;
• The organization of the modes and cosmology ;
• Musical instruments ;
• From the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century ;
• From 1850 to the end of the twentieth century ;
• The period of the Arab renaissance, the nahda ;
• The twentieth century ;
• The lyric theatre ;
• The music film and Muhammad 'Abdu-l-Wahhab ;
• The radio and Umm Kulthum ;
• The turat or musical heritage ;
• The seventies, a change of generations ;
• Part 2: The Modern Time ;
• Introduction ;
• The tone system ;
• Temperament ;
• The jins ;
• The maqam ;
• Meter and rhythm ;
• The classical urban music ;
• The tradition of Iraq: al-maqam al-'iraqi ;
• The classical tradition of Syria and Egypt, the wasla ;
• Classical traditions in North Africa: the nawba ;
• Popular music ;
• Firqa songs ;
• The Egyptian sa'bi ;
• The Egyptian gil ;
• The Algerian rai ;
• The Moroccan sa'bi (chaabi) ;
• The Arab hiphop ;
• Folk Music ;
• The Middle East ;
• The Maghreb ;
• Bibliography ;
• Discography ;
• List of recorded music ;
• Websites ;
• Index