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Amnon Shiloah

The Dimension of Music in Islamic and Jewish Culture

Amnon Shiloah

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English
Variorum
22 April 1993
Theory of music & musicology; Early music (up to c 1000 CE); Jewish studies; Islamic studies; Anthropology
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
Though we can no longer hear how it sounded, the written sources that remain provide much information on the music of the medieval Islamic and Jewish worlds, on how it was regarded and on the importance that was attached to it. Professor Shiloah has been a pioneer in the exploration of these sources, and the present volume brings together some of the results. The first studies examine, with annotated translations, several key works expounding the meaning of music and its power, in terms of its ethical and therapeutic effects and properties. The subsequent articles focus on scientific writings about music and on the transmission of musical knowledge. The final section approaches the subject from the angle of religion, noting how the power attributed to music occasioned the distrust of many religious figures, who feared its capacity to deprave and debase its audience.
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Imprint:   Variorum
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   CS393
Dimensions:   Height: 244mm,  Width: 150mm,  Spine: 157mm
Weight:   748g
ISBN:   9780860783527
ISBN 10:   0860783529
Series:   Variorum Collected Studies
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Further / Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
"Contents: Preface; Un ancien traite sur le 'ud d'Abu Yusuf al Kindi; The 'ud and the origin of music; The epistle on music of the Ikhwan al-Safa; The musical passage in ibn Ezra's 'Book of the Garden'; Ibn Hindu, le medicin et la musique; Musical modes and the medical dimension: the Arabic sources (c.900-c.1600); Deux textes arabes inedits sur la musique; Un ""probleme musical"" inconnu de Thabit ibn Qurra; The Arabic concept of mode; Music in the pre-Islamic period as reflected in Arabic writings of the first Islamic centuries; Techniques of scholarship in medieval Arabic musical treatises; The attitude towards music of Jewish religious authorities; The symbolism of music in the Kabbalistic tradition; La voix et les techniques vocales chez les Arabes; An 18th-century critic of music and good taste; Index."

Amnon Shiloah, Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Reviews for The Dimension of Music in Islamic and Jewish Culture

'...[an] estimable and most welcome collection.' Bulletin for the School of Oriental and African Studies


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