Music and Islam talk

Music of the Islamic World

by Michael Frishkopf Dept of Music

• What could we possibly mean by "music of the Islamic world"?
• Four possibilities

Sound of Islamic ritual practices: Islamic "music"

• Language performance in Islam - genres and styles

Islamicate music

• Outline of Islamicate music: music in the main Arab-Islamic civilizations (after Ali Jihad Racy)
• Islamicate Music and the Islam factor
• Discourse about music in Islam
• Islamicate music in theory (musiqi; ancient Greek influence) and practice (ghina'; Arab)
• Musical features of Islamicate music
• Examples of Islamicate music