New Book on SCA-Period Arabic Music

[Woodrow Hill]

I hope to be ordering this soon...


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Subject: George Sawa's Study of Rhythms

Dear Friends

My book (Rhythmic Theories and Practices in Arabic Writings to 339 AH/
950 CE. Annotated Translations and Commentaries. Ottawa: The Institute
of Mediaeval Music, 2009) is finally in print. You can order it by
emailing Prof. Bryan Gillingham at  media...@rogers.com, or by FAX
1-613-225-9487, or by writing to The Institute of Mediaeval Music,
1270 Lampman Cr., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2C 1P8.
The book is in 2 parts. Part one deals with the theory of the
practitioners, namely, Ishaq al-Mawsili (d. 850) and his followers.
Part two deals with the fusion of Arabic and Greek theories found in
four treatises of al-Kindi (d. after 870) and four treatises of
al-Farabi (d. 950). The latter created a precise notation system, and
constructed an unparalleled theory of Middle Eastern rhythms by
relying on his own experience as a performer and by using models from
the works of Euclid, Aristotle, Aristoxenus, and Arab scholars in the
humanities (e.g., grammar, phonology, prosody, poetics, rhetoric and
Qur’anic Sciences). The book concludes with a Greek-Arabic-English
glossary.
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