Difference between revisions of "Islamic expansion and Islamicate music"
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*** Professional class of musicians | *** Professional class of musicians | ||
** Accumulation of intellectual/artistic capital | ** Accumulation of intellectual/artistic capital | ||
− | *** Bayt al-Hikma | + | *** Bayt al-Hikma translation movement (Abbasids), including Greek treatises relating to music (Aristoxenus, others) |
− | *** Music theory as philosophy | + | *** Music theory as philosophy (music as among the "mathematical sciences", with geometry, arithmetic, astronomy) |
*** Development of musical arts | *** Development of musical arts | ||
* Outward flow from center: cultural diffusion, as Islam provides political/cultural/linguistic/religious "lingua franca" | * Outward flow from center: cultural diffusion, as Islam provides political/cultural/linguistic/religious "lingua franca" | ||
* Fragmentation of Islamic empire in 10th c, corresponding fission in Islamicate forms, which nevertheless remained linked | * Fragmentation of Islamic empire in 10th c, corresponding fission in Islamicate forms, which nevertheless remained linked |
Revision as of 02:09, 7 April 2008
- Expansion: powered by Islamic ideology, and weakness of prevailing powers at the time (Sassanian and Byzantine)
- Inward flow towards center: assimilation, cultural fusion via openness to learning and multiculturalism (especially Persian arts and sciences)
- Accumulation of financial capital
- Opulent courts (Madina, Damascus, Baghdad, Cordoba, Granada...)
- Development of leisure class
- Patronage of music and singing
- Professional class of musicians
- Accumulation of intellectual/artistic capital
- Bayt al-Hikma translation movement (Abbasids), including Greek treatises relating to music (Aristoxenus, others)
- Music theory as philosophy (music as among the "mathematical sciences", with geometry, arithmetic, astronomy)
- Development of musical arts
- Accumulation of financial capital
- Outward flow from center: cultural diffusion, as Islam provides political/cultural/linguistic/religious "lingua franca"
- Fragmentation of Islamic empire in 10th c, corresponding fission in Islamicate forms, which nevertheless remained linked