The dimension of music in Islamic and Jewish culture
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The dimension of music in Islamic and Jewish culture
（Collected studies series, CS393）
Variorum, c1993
Available at 13 libraries
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Text in English and French
Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
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. Amnon Shiloah has been a pioneer in the exploration of these sources, and the present volume brings together some of the results. The opening 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 following articles focus on scientific writings about music and on the transmission of musical knowledge, while 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. Bien que nous ne puissions plus de nos jours l'entendre, les sources ecrites qui ont survecu apportent enormement d'information sur la musique des mondes juifs et islamiques, sur l'importance qui y etait attachee et sur son rAle. Le professeur Shiloah est un des pionniers en terme d'exploration de ces sources et le present volume rassemble un certain nombre des resultats de ses recherches. Les premieres etudes, accompagnees de traductions annotees, font l'examen de plusieurs travaux importants, exposant la signification de la musique et sa puissance de par ses effets et ses proprietes morales et therapeutiques. Les articles suivants se concentrent sur les ecrits scientifiques au sujet de la musique et sur la propagation de la connaissance musicale. La derniere section aborde le sujet A partir de l'aspect de la religion, soulignant combien le pouvoir attribue A la musique entraA (R)nait une certaine mefiance de la part d'un certain nombre de religieux, qui craignaient son aptitude A avilir et depraver ceux qui l'ecoutaient.
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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