Rhythmic theories and practices in Arabic writings to 339 AH/950 CE : annotated translations and commentaries

Author(s)

• Sawa, George
• Ibn al-Nadīm al-Mawṣilī, Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm, 771 or or 850
• Ibn Khurradādhbih, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh, approximatelyapproximately 912
• Baṭalyawsī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 1052 or
• Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī, 897 or
• Kindī, -approximately 873

Bibliographic Information

Rhythmic theories and practices in Arabic writings to 339 AH/950 CE : annotated translations and commentaries

by George Dimitri Sawa

（Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen = Musicological studies, Bd. 93）

Institute of Mediaeval Music, c2009

Note

Includes Arabic-English, English-Arabic, and Greek-Arabic-English glossaries

Includes bibliography (p. [583]-593) and index

Summary: "The present work is an English translation and commentary on the Arabic treatises on rhythms from the early Islamic era to the middle of the fourth century AH/tenth century CE"--Preface

Details

• NCID: BB18141207
• ISBN:
  • 9781896926988
• LCCN: 2009437994
• Country Code: cn
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Ottawa
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 639 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : MT5.5
  • DC22 : 781.0917/5927
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Music theory -- Arab countries -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Musical meter and rhythm -- Arab countries -- Early works to 1800
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA10784181