Outline of music in Arab-Islamic civilization

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  • 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
      • 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
  • Mass media
    • Recording
    • Film
    • Radio
    • TV
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