Music and its Virtues in Islamic and Judaic Writings
- Author: Shiloah, Amnon
this is a valuable collection. Shiloah's concise and clear survey articles provide particularly useful teaching material. Much of the material covered here touches on topics of continuing wide... — More…
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Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Part 1 Theories of Origins: The beginning of things: theories of origins in Arabic and Hebrew sources
- A passage by Immanuel ha-Romi on the science of music
- Biblical references to music as interpreted in Arabic treatises
- The davidic traditions concerning music
- The singing birds
- Reflexions sur la danse artistique musulmane au moyen Acge. Part 2 The Symbolic, Philosophical and Metaphorical Interpretation of Music: L' approche humaniste et metaphorique dans les premiers ecrits arabes sur la musique
- La musique entre le divin et le terrestre
- 'ASn-kol' - commentaire hebraA-que de A em Tov ibn A aprA"t sur le canon d' Avicenne
- Jewish and Muslim traditions of music therapy. Part 3 The Transmission of Musical Knowledge: Qalonimus ben Qalonimus, 'Ma'amar be-mispar ha-hokhmAt'
- Musical concepts in the works of Saadia Gaon
- Some comments of the cantillation of the 10 Commandments
- A propos d' un 'petit livre arabe de musique' (with A. Berthier)
- Notions d' esthetique dans les traites arabes sur la musique
- L' evolution de la vocalite et de la technique vocale dans les traites anciens de la musique arabe. Part 4 The Ideological Attitude Towards Music: Music and religion in Islam
- MaA-monide et la musique. Part 5 Music in Contact: The Romaniot musical tradition (revised version)
- Development of Jewish liturgical singing in Spain
- Muslim and Jewish musical traditions in the Middle Ages
- Andalusian instruments of music and instruments of entertainment
- Index.