Difference between revisions of "The history of Arab music (Touma)"

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Pre-Islamic Arabia (Jahiliyya) of 6th century.
- Bedouin song (huda', nasb)
- Urban song of qayna (sinad, hazaj)
Early Arabian school, in Medina, Damascus
- Multiple influences of Islam: as moral system, as civilizational catalyst
- Rise of al-ghina' al-mutqan (perfect singing)
- Rise of Medina as musical center
- mukhannathun, esp. Tuways (632-710)
- little systematization of theory (finger modes)
- multicultural influences in Arabia
New music of Baghdad
- Persian influence
- Traditionalists: Ishaq al-Mawsili (767-850), student Ziryab.
- Modernists: Ibrahim al-Mahdi (779-839)
- Translation movement produced music treatises. Systematic music theory (al-Farabi's Kitab al-Musiqa al-Kabir). Biographical treatises (Isfahani's Kitab al-Aghani al-Kabir).
Music of Andalusia
- Ziryab to Cordoba (822)
- Transfer to North African art musics (Ala, nawba, san`a, ma'luf)
Decline of Arab music: 13th to 19th c

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 ** Rise of Medina as musical center
 ** mukhannathun, esp. Tuways (632-710)
+** little systematization of theory (finger modes)
 ** multicultural influences in Arabia
 * New music of Baghdad
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 ** Traditionalists:  Ishaq al-Mawsili (767-850), student Ziryab.
 ** Modernists:  Ibrahim al-Mahdi (779-839)
-** Treatises.  Translation movement, music theory (al-Farabi), history (Isfahani)
+** Translation movement produced music treatises. Systematic music theory (al-Farabi's ''Kitab al-Musiqa  al-Kabir'').  Biographical treatises (Isfahani's ''Kitab al-Aghani al-Kabir'').
 * Music of Andalusia
 ** Ziryab to Cordoba (822)
 ** Transfer to North African art musics (Ala, nawba, san`a, ma'luf)
 * Decline of Arab music: 13th to 19th c