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1st Edition

The Dimension of Music in Islamic and Jewish Culture

By Amnon Shiloah Copyright 1993
    336 Pages
    by Routledge

    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 écrites qui ont survécu apportent énormément d’information sur la musique des mondes juifs et islamiques, sur l’importance qui y était attachée et sur son rôle. Le professeur Shiloah est un des pionniers en terme d’exploration de ces sources et le présent volume rassemble un certain nombre des résultats de ses recherches. Les premières études, accompagnées de traductions annotées, font l’examen de plusieurs travaux importants, exposant la signification de la musique et sa puissance de par ses effets et ses propriétés morales et thérapeutiques. Les articles suivants se concentrent sur les écrits scientifiques au sujet de la musique et sur la propagation de la connaissance musicale. La dernière section aborde le sujet à partir de l’aspect de la religion, soulignant combien le pouvoir attribué à la musique entraînait une certaine méfiance de la part d’un certain nombre de religieux, qui craignaient son aptitude à avilir et dépraver ceux qui l’ecoutaient.

    Preface THE SYMBOLIC AND METAPHORICAL INTERPRETATION OFMUSIC I Un ancien traite sur le 'ud d' Abu Yusuf al Kindi Israel Oriental Studies IV TelAviv, 1974 II The 'ad and the origin of music. Studia Orientalia Memoriae D.H. Baneth dedicata, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Jerusalem, 1979 III The epistle on music of the Ikhwan al-Safa Documentation and Studies 3, Department of Musicology and the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv, 1978 IV The musical passage in ibn Ezra's book of the garden Yuval: Studies of the Jewish Music Research Centre IV, Jerusalem, 1982 V Ibn Hindu, le medecin et la musique Israel Oriental Studies II TelAviv, 1972 VI Musical modes and the medical dimension: The Arabic sources (c.900--c.1600) Metaphor: A Musical Dimension, ed. Dr Jamie Kassler, Paddington, Aus., 1991 THE SCIENTIFIC ASPECT VII Deux textes arabes inedits sur la musique Yuval: Studies of the Jewish Research Centre I, Jerusalem, 1968 VIII Un probleme musical inconnu de Thabit ibn Qurra Orbis Musicae I, TelAviv, 1971 IX The Arabic concept of mode Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 34, 1, 1981 THE TRANSMISSION OF MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE X Music in the pre-Islamic period as reflected in Arabic writings of the first Islamic centuries Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 7, Jerusalem, 1986 XI Techniques of scholarship in medieval Arabic musical treatises Music Theory and Its Sources: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, ed. Andre Barbera, Notre Dame, Ind., 1990 THE IDEOLOGICAL ATTITUDE TOW ARDS MUSIC XII The attitude towards music of Jewish religious authorities English version of Der Judaismus, Religiose Autoritiiten und Musik: Ein Symposium, eds Dorothea and Kurt von Fischer, Kassel, 1984 XIII The symbolism of music in the Kabbalistic tradition World of Music, vol. XX, 3 Wilhelmshaven, 1978 XIV La voix et les techniques vocales chez les arabes Cahiers de musiques traditionelles 4 Geneva, 1991 XV An eighteenth-century critic of taste and good taste Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History, Champaign, Ill., 1990

    Biography

    Amnon Shiloah, Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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