Music in the World of Islam: A Socio-cultural Study

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	Contents
	Preface
	Transliteration of Arabic Characters
	Introduction
	Chronological table
	Musical examples and illustrations
	1 Pre-Islamic Music
	2 The Rise of Islam
	3 The First Dynastic Caliphate
	4 Islam and Music
	5 The Science of Music
	6 Decentralization and Advent of Local Styles
	7 From Constantinople to Kashmir
	8 The Advent of Recent Trends
	9 Scales, Modes and Rhythms
	The modal concept
	Association of modes with ethic al and cosmological values
	Rhythm
	10 Improvised and Compound Compositions
	Improvised pieces
	Individual and compound compositions
	Compound and cyclic genres
	11 Dance
	Art dance
	Animal dances
	Healing rituals
	Folk dance
	12 Folk Musical Traditions
	Work songs
	The performers
	Narrative and didactic songs
	Relation of text to melody
	Instrumental music and musical instruments
	Thematic bibliography (references)
	IV. Writings
	V. Historical - General studies
	VII. Religious music (attitude, cantillation and Sufi music)
	VIII. Influences	,
	IX.	Scales and modes
	XI.	Dance
	XII.	Instruments
	XrV. Folk music
	Country index
	List of sources
	Index