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Music --- History and criticism. --- Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī,

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George Dimitri Sawa’s Arabic Musical and Socio-Cultural Glossary of Kitāb al-Aghānī is the first comprehensive lexicographical study of Umayyad and early Abbāsid-era music theory and practices. It defines melodic and rhythmic modes, musical forms, instruments, technical terms and metaphors used in evaluating compositions and performances, and the emotional effects of ṭarab. It explains the processes of composition and learning, performance practice, musical change and aesthetics, and addresses the behavior of court musicians to help understand societal views of music. Medieval dictionaries, reference works on Arabic literature, theoretical treatises as well as full quotations from the Aghānī are used. This glossary will be of interest to scholars and students of the music and socio-cultural history of the early Islamic era.

Music --- History and criticism. --- Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī, --- Music, Arabic --- Musique arabe --- Musique --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Terminologie

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The present volume consists of translated anecdotes, on musicological and socio-cultural topics, from al-Iṣbahānī’s Kitāb al-Aghānī al-Kabīr ( The Grand Book of Songs ) with annotations and commentaries. It deals with musical rhythmic and melodic modes, technical terms and treatises; music instruments; composition techniques and processes; education and oral/written transmissions; vocal and instrumental performances and their aesthetics; solo and ensemble music; change and its inevitability; musical and textual improvisations; ṭarab and the acute emotions of joy or grief; medieval dances; social status. Though extracts from The Grand Book of Songs have been translated in European languages since 1816, this work presents a much larger and more comprehensive scope that will benefit musicologists, medievalist and Middle Eastern scholars as well as the general reader.

Music --- Music. --- History and criticism. --- Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī, --- Kitāb al-aghānī (Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī) --- 500-1400 --- Arab countries. --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī, --- Kitāb al-aghānī (Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī)

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This is the first systematic literary study of one of the masterpieces of classical Arabic literature, the fourth/tenth century Kitâb al-aghânî (The Book of Songs) by Abû I-Faraj al-Isbahânî. Until now the twenty-four volume Book of Songs has been regarded as a rather chaotic but priceless mine of information about classical Arabic music, literature and culture. This book approaches it as a work of literature in its own right, with its own internal logic and coherence.

Abu l-Faraj al-Isbahani, --- Islamic Empire --- Empire islamique --- Intellectual life. --- Vie intellectuelle --- Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī, --- Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī, --- Intellectual life --- Abu l-Farajnal-Isbahani --- Abu al-Faraj al-Isbahani,

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Performance practice (Music) --- Abbasids. --- History --- 78 "07/09" --- Music --- -Music --- -Islamic music --- -Islam and music --- Mosque music --- Music, Islamic --- Muslim music --- Muslims --- Sacred music --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Muziek--?"07/09" --- History and criticism --- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.) --- Performance --- -History --- Farabi --- Abu al-Faraj al-Isbahani --- Alpharabius --- Alfarabius --- Abennasar --- Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Fārābī --- Uzluk oğlu Farâbî --- Fārābī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad --- Abu Nasr Mukhammad alʹ-Farabi --- Farabi, Abu Nasr Mukhammad --- Abu-Nasr alʹ-Farabi --- Abū Naṣr Fārābī --- Alfarabi --- Alfārābī, Abu Nasr --- Abu Nasr Alfārābī --- Avennasar --- Abu Nasr Forobiĭ --- Форобий, Абу Наср --- Forobiĭ, Abu Nasr --- alʹ-Farabi --- Al-Faraby --- Abu Nasr Muhammet ibn Muhammet ibn Tarhan ibn Uzlug Faraby --- Faraby, Abu Nasr Muhammet ibn Muhammet ibn Tarhan ibn Uzlug --- Abū Naṣr Muḥammad bin Muḥammad bin Ṭarhkhān bin Ūzluġ al-Fārābī --- Fārābī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad bin Muḥammad bin Ṭarhkhān bin Ūzluġ al --- -Phwarabi, Abu Nassr --- Pharabi --- פאראבי --- أبو نصر الفارابي --- الفارابي --- فارابي --- فرابي --- -Muziek--?"07/09" --- 78 "07/09" Muziek--?"07/09" --- -Sacred music --- Islam and music --- Abū Nasr Muhammed ibn Muhammed ibn Tarhān ibn Uzlag al-Farabi --- Fārābī --- Muhammed Ibn Muhammed (Abu Nasir) al-Farabi --- Abbasids --- Musical performance practice --- Performing practice (Music) --- Caliphs --- Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī, --- Fārābī. --- Abī al-Faraj al-Aṣbahānī, --- Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusain, --- Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī ʻAlī ibn Ḥusain, --- Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī, --- Abu-lʻ-Faradzh alʹ-Isfakhani, --- Abu'l Faraj'l Asfahani, --- ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusain, Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī, --- ʻAlī ibn al-Huṣayn al-Iṣbahānī, --- Alī ibn Ḥusain, Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī, --- Asfahani, Abuʼl Farajʼl, --- Iṣbahānī, Abū al-Faraj, --- Iṣfahānī, Abū al-Faraj, --- Isfaḣani, Ăbu̇lfărăj, --- Isfakhani, Abu-lʹ-Faradzh, --- أبو الفرج الأصبهاني، --- أبو الفرج الإصبهاني، --- أبو الفرج الإصفهاني، --- أبو الفرج الاصبهانى --- أبو الفرج الاصفهاني --- أصبهاني، أبو الفرج --- ابو الفرج الإصفعاني --- ابو الفرج الاصبهاني، --- ابو الفرج الاصبهني، --- ابو فرج الاصبهاني --- al-Fārābī, Abū-Nasr Muhammad. --- Performance practice (Music) - Middle East - History - To 1500.