Difference between revisions of "Outline of music in Arab-Islamic civilization"
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| − | |||
* Contact with Assimilated Cultures | * Contact with Assimilated Cultures | ||
** Madina | ** Madina | ||
| − | ** | + | ** Damascus - Umayyads (661-750) |
| − | ** | + | ** Baghdad - Abbasids (750-909) |
** Assimilation of musical traditions of Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Byzantium, and Persia. | ** Assimilation of musical traditions of Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Byzantium, and Persia. | ||
* Contact with the Classical Past | * Contact with the Classical Past | ||
Revision as of 23:01, 18 September 2006
- Contact with Assimilated Cultures
- Madina
- Damascus - Umayyads (661-750)
- Baghdad - Abbasids (750-909)
- 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)
- Unifying Traits of Arab Music
- Importance of Arabic language.
- Centrality of melody
- Heterophony
- Ornament
- Microtonality
- 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
