Difference between revisions of "Outline of music in Arab-Islamic civilization"

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** Radio
 
** Radio
 
** TV
 
** TV
 
 
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* Unifying Traits of Arab Music
 
** Importance of Arabic language.
 
** Centrality of melody
 
*** Heterophony
 
*** Ornament
 
*** Microtonality
 
*** [http://www.maqamworld.com 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
 

Revision as of 23:45, 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