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

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents Page
Part 1
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 muḳannaṯ
		Damascus
	The Golden Age of the Abbasids (eighth and ninth centuries)
		Music at the court of Harun ar-Rasid
		The emergence of Andalusia
		Music theory
		The beginning of the Andalusian music tradition: Ziryāb
	The tenth to the thirteenth century
		Music theory in the Mashriq
			Al-Fārābī
			Al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad
			Ibn Sīnā
		Developments since the tenth century in the Maghreb
	From circa 1250 to 1600
		Musical life
		Music Theory
			The basic tone range
			The basic scales jins and šadd
			Transposition of modes
		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 nahḍa
		The twentieth century
			The lyric theatre
			The music film and Muḥammad ʿAbdū-l-Wahhāb
			The radio and Umm Kulthūm
			The turāṯ or musical heritage
			The seventies, a change of generations
				Part 2
Part 2
The Modern Time
	Introduction
	The tone system
		Temperament
		The jins
		The maqām
			The number of maqāmāt
			The tonal structure of a maqām
			The main maqāmāt
				— Rāst
				— Bayātī
				—  Sīkā
				— Huzām
				— Sabā
				— Nahāwand
				— Nawā aṯar
				— ʿAjām
				— Ḥijāz
			Modulations
		Meter and rhythm
			Simple binary awzān
			Simple ternary awzān
			Some compound awzān
				aqsāq ṯaqīl:
				aqsāq:
				dawr hindī:
				nawaḳt:
				dawr kabīr turkī:
				samāʿī ṯaqīl:
				ʿawīs:
	The classical urban music
		The tradition of Iraq: al-maqām al-ʿirāqī
		The classical tradition of Syria and Egypt, the waṣla
			The instrumental forms of the Syrian and Egyptian tradition
				The taqsīm
				The bašraf
				The samāʿī
				The lūnga
				The dūlāb
				The taḥmīla
			The vocal forms of the Syrian and Egyptian tradition
				The mawwāl
				The dawr
				The layālī
				The uġniya
				The muwaššaḥ
		Classical traditions in North Africa: the nawba
			The Moroccan nawba tadition
			The Algerian nawba tradition
			The Tunisian nawba tradition
	Popular music
		Firqa songs
		The Egyptian šaʿbī
		The Egyptian gīl
		The Algerian raï
		The Moroccan šaʿbī (chaâbi)
		The Arab hiphop
	Folk Music
		The Middle East
			The Bedouins
			The sedentary population
				Non-metrical songs of the sedentary population.
				Metrical songs of the sedentary population
			The music of the inhabitants of the eastern and southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula
		The Maghreb
			Vocal Music
			Instrumental music
Bibliography
Discography
List of recorded music
Websites
Index