An Arabic musical and socio-cultural glossary of Kitab al-aghani /

An Arabic musical and socio-cultural glossary of Kitab al-aghani /

George Dimitri Sawa's Arabic Musical and Socio-Cultural Glossary of Kitāb al-Aghānī is the first comprehensive lexicographical study of Umayyad and early Abbāsid-era music theory and practices. It defines melodic and rhythmic modes, musical forms, instruments, technical terms and metaphors used...

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Main Author: Sawa, George, 1947-

Format: eBook

Language: Arabic

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Series: Islamic History and Civilization 110.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287464.

Subjects:

Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī, > 897 or 898-967. > Kitāb al-aghānī.
Kitāb al-aghānī (Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī)
Music > Arab countries > History and criticism.
Music.
Arab countries.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Terminology.

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Call Number: ML348.2 .S28 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī and George Dimitri Sawa
  • Introduction
  • Arabic preliminaries /
  • Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī and George Dimitri Sawa
  • Arabic Introduction مقدمة الكتاب
  • Glossary of Kitāb al-Aghānī قاموس كتاب الأغاني
  • Arabic and Persian References المراجع العربية والفارسية
  • Tables جداول.