The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers
The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers

Author: Matthew Head

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-05-30

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 110848915X

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Exploring a diverse, distinguished repertoire, and transcending the rhetoric of neglect, this book transforms understanding of women composers.

Musical and Socio-Cultural Anecdotes from Kitāb al-Aghānī al-Kabīr
Musical and Socio-Cultural Anecdotes from Kitāb al-Aghānī al-Kabīr

Author: George Dimitri Sawa

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-01-14

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 9004383654

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The present volume consists of translated anecdotes, on musicological and socio-cultural topics, from al-Iṣbahānī’s Kitāb al-Aghānī al-Kabīr (The Grand Book of Songs) with annotations and commentaries. It deals with musical rhythmic and melodic modes, technical terms and treatises; music instruments; composition techniques and processes; education and oral/written transmissions; vocal and instrumental performances and their aesthetics; solo and ensemble music; change and its inevitability; musical and textual improvisations; ṭarab and the acute emotions of joy or grief; medieval dances; social status. Though extracts from The Grand Book of Songs have been translated in European languages since 1816, this work presents a much larger and more comprehensive scope that will benefit musicologists, medievalist and Middle Eastern scholars as well as the general reader.

Making the Great Book of Songs
Making the Great Book of Songs

Author: Hilary Kilpatrick

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 113578793X

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This is the first systematic literary study of one of the masterpieces of classical Arabic literature, the fourth/tenth century Kitâb al-aghânî (The Book of Songs) by Abû I-Faraj al-Isbahânî. Until now the twenty-four volume Book of Songs has been regarded as a rather chaotic but priceless mine of information about classical Arabic music, literature and culture. This book approaches it as a work of literature in its own right, with its own internal logic and coherence. The study also consistently integrates the musical component into the analysis and proposes a reading of the work in which individual anecdotes and poems are related to the wider context, enhancing their meaning.

Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction
Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Timothy Rice

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 0199794375

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Explaining that musicality is an essential touchstone of the human experience, a concise introduction to the study of the nature of music, its community and its cultural values explains the diverse work of today's ethnomusicologists and how researchers apply anthropological and other social disciplines to studies of human and cultural behaviors. Original.