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Author:   Amnon Shiloah
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Variorum
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   CS393
Weight:   0.748kg
ISBN:  

9780860783527

ISBN 10:   0860783529
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   22 April 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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.

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

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

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