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Rhythmic Theories and Practices in Arabic and Persian Sources from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century: Annotated Translation and Commentary

Rhythmic Theories and Practices in Arabic and Persian Sources from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century: Annotated Translation and Commentary

Sawa, George Dimitri

Hardcover

Series: Islamic History and Civilization, Book 227

General Asian HistoryMusic CompositionMusic Theory

ISBN10: 9004733949
ISBN13: 9789004733947
Publisher: Brill
Published: Dec 10 2025
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.63
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.25
Language: Arabic
The book deals with rhythmic theories and practices in Arabic and Persian sources from the 10th to the 15th century. Sources prior to the 10th century are summarized as a basis for the theories that follow from the 10th to the 15th century. They include the works of Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ, Ibn Sīnā, Ibn Zayla, al-Kātib, Ibn al-Ṭaḥḥān, al-Tīfāshī, and the ground breaking works of al-Urmawī with his novel circular notation that survived up to the 20th century. They also include the works of al-Marāghī who invented many long rhythmic modes, and the works of al-Shirwānī, al-Lādh9qī and Awbahī. The work summarizes the definition of all the rhythmic modes in alphabetical listing.

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