Difference between revisions of "Examples of Islamicate music"
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These musical forms were often absorbed into Islamic (Sufi) performance, drew upon the latter, or exchanged materials. At times it is difficult to determine the boundaries of "Islamic" and "Islamicate" altogether. | These musical forms were often absorbed into Islamic (Sufi) performance, drew upon the latter, or exchanged materials. At times it is difficult to determine the boundaries of "Islamic" and "Islamicate" altogether. | ||
| − | * Egypt's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjziPpZG_cw Umm Kulthum]. Trained in tajwid at the kuttab (Qur'anic school) | + | * Egypt's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjziPpZG_cw Umm Kulthum]. Trained in tajwid at the kuttab (Qur'anic school), munshidin like Shaykh Yasin often draw upon her melodies as more spiritual than other secular music. |
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA0XofIlYZY Sabah Fakhri (b. 1933), the greatest modern exponent of the pre-mediated Islamicate Arab style of "tarab" in Syria]. Note tarab interactions - not unlike those of Shaykh Mustafa Ismaʿīl | * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA0XofIlYZY Sabah Fakhri (b. 1933), the greatest modern exponent of the pre-mediated Islamicate Arab style of "tarab" in Syria]. Note tarab interactions - not unlike those of Shaykh Mustafa Ismaʿīl | ||
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MsqBo0wJb4 Turkish Fasil][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icntdwGacpo Music of Selim III], 1761 – 1808, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1807.[http://www.oud.gr/music_turkey.html]. | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MsqBo0wJb4 Turkish Fasil][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icntdwGacpo Music of Selim III], 1761 – 1808, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1807.[http://www.oud.gr/music_turkey.html]. | ||
Revision as of 12:58, 1 February 2024
These musical forms were often absorbed into Islamic (Sufi) performance, drew upon the latter, or exchanged materials. At times it is difficult to determine the boundaries of "Islamic" and "Islamicate" altogether.
- Egypt's Umm Kulthum. Trained in tajwid at the kuttab (Qur'anic school), munshidin like Shaykh Yasin often draw upon her melodies as more spiritual than other secular music.
- Sabah Fakhri (b. 1933), the greatest modern exponent of the pre-mediated Islamicate Arab style of "tarab" in Syria. Note tarab interactions - not unlike those of Shaykh Mustafa Ismaʿīl
- Turkish FasilMusic of Selim III, 1761 – 1808, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1807.[1].
- Khayal[2] style of Hindustani classical music.
- Javanese gamelan
- Persian dastgah, performed on solo kemenche by Kayhan Kalhor
- Moroccan nawba
- Plucked Lutes in West Africa: An Historical Overview, by Eric Charry (The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 49 (Mar., 1996), pp. 3-37)
- Xalam (Wolof - Senegal), Ngoni (Bambara - Mali/Guinea)
- Xalam video, Ngoni video
- Kologo, [3] (King Ayisoba)
- Bamaya northern Ghanaian traditional drumming, from the Dagomba people.
- Hausa traditional music (northern Nigeria, near Zaria)
Compare the above to Sufi performance from various places, and the category of Inshad Sufi.
