Difference between revisions of "Outline of music in Arab-Islamic civilization"
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Revision as of 23:08, 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
- Rule of Ottoman Turks (1517-1917)
- Contact with the Modern West (1798 - present)
- Influence of Mass media
- Recording
- Film
- Radio
- TV
- Unifying Traits of Arab Music
- Importance of Arabic language.
- Centrality of melody
- Heterophony
- Ornament
- Microtonality
- Maqam
- Improvisation
- Rhythm
- Free rhythm forms
- Simple cycles
- Complex 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
