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'''Six factors shaping Arab Islamicate music through history:'''
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(after Dr. Jihad Racy)
  
* Contact with Assimilated Cultures
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* Contact with Assimilated Cultures, through Islamic expansion(especially musical traditions of Persia, Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Byzantium)
** Madina
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* Contact with the Classical Past (ancient Greece), through Bayt al-Hikma translation movement (Abbasid era, 750-1258)
** Syria - Umayyads (661-750)
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* Contact with the Medieval West (crusades, Andalusia)
** Iraq - Abbasids (750-909)
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* Rule of Ottoman Turks over most of the Arab world (1517-1917)
** Assimilation of musical traditions of Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Byzantium, and Persia.
 
* Contact with the Classical Past
 
* Contact with the Medieval West
 
* Ottoman Turks (1517-1917)
 
 
* Contact with the Modern West (1798 - present)
 
* Contact with the Modern West (1798 - present)
* Unifying Traits of Arab Music
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* Influence of mass media and globalization
** Importance of Arabic language.
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** Recording
** Centrality of melody
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** Film
*** Heterophony
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** Radio
*** Ornament
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** TV
*** Microtonality
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** Internet
*** Maqam
 
*** Improvisation
 
** Rhythm
 
*** Free rhythm  forms
 
*** Cycles
 
** Compound forms
 
*** Fasil (Syria)
 
*** Nawba (North Africa)
 
*** Wasla (Egypt)
 
** Instruments
 
*** qanun (a trapazoidal plucked zither)
 
*** 'ud (a fretless plucked lute)
 
*** nay (a reed flute)
 
*** Western violin
 
*** folk instruments
 
** Mass media
 
*** Recording
 
*** Film
 
*** Radio
 
*** TV
 

Latest revision as of 07:54, 30 January 2024

Six factors shaping Arab Islamicate music through history: (after Dr. Jihad Racy)

  • Contact with Assimilated Cultures, through Islamic expansion(especially musical traditions of Persia, Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Byzantium)
  • Contact with the Classical Past (ancient Greece), through Bayt al-Hikma translation movement (Abbasid era, 750-1258)
  • Contact with the Medieval West (crusades, Andalusia)
  • Rule of Ottoman Turks over most of the Arab world (1517-1917)
  • Contact with the Modern West (1798 - present)
  • Influence of mass media and globalization
    • Recording
    • Film
    • Radio
    • TV
    • Internet