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Here are a few articles I wrote about some of the topics that I found interesting when I was discovering Middle Eastern music
A perfect match
The Double Bass and Middle Eastern Music
This more comprehensive article is a study of the reasons that made the double bass enter the traditional music of the Middle East
A perfect match
The Double Bass
and Middle Eastern Music
This more comprehensive article is a study of the reasons that made the double bass enter the traditional music of the Middle East
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Bibliography
Here is a list of articles that were eye-opening to me in studying about Middle Eastern music.
Most of them are not free online, so try to search for items on this list and look for the article at a library or an online resource like Jstore if you have access to it through your college or institute.
- Cohen, D., “An Investigation into the Tonal Structures of the Maqamat,” The Journal of the International Folk Music Council, vol. 16 (1964), pp. 103–106.
- Cohen, D., “Patterns and Frameworks of Intonation,” Journal of Music Theory, vol. 13/1 (1969), pp. 66–92.
- Cohen, D., “Separation and Directivity as Guiding Principles in the Comparison between Eastern and Western Music,” in Proceedings of the World Congress on Jewish Music, Jerusalem, 1978 (1982), pp. 127–147.
- Cohen, D., “Some More about Style: On Comparison of Musical Styles of the East and of the West,” Israel Studies in Musicology, vol. 4 (1987), pp. 1–20.
- Cohen, D., and R. Katz, “The Degree of Ornamentation as a Distinguishing Feature of Genres in Arabic Song” (Hebrew), Motar (Tel Aviv University, Faculty of the Arts), vol. 4, 1995, pp. 169–174.
- Cohen, D., “Music in Different Cultures: Shared and Divergent Features,” Music in Time, 2007, pp. 1–29.
See the complete list of publications by Dalya Cohen here: https://www.jamd.ac.il/en/dalia_c_publications
- Ali Jihad Racy, “Arabian Music and the Effects of Commercial Recording” The World of Music,Vol. 20, No. 1, the arab world (1978), pp. 47-58
- Sawa, George D. “The Survival of Some Aspects of Medieval Arabic Performance Practice.” Ethnomusicology, vol. 25, no. 1, 1981, pp. 73–86.
- El-Shawan, Salwa. “The Socio-Political Context of Al-Mūsīķa Al-Carabiyyaii in Cairo, Egypt: Policies, Patronage, Institutions, and Musical Change (1927-77).” Asian Music, vol. 12, no. 1, 1980, pp. 86–128.
- El-Shawan, Salwa. “Traditional Arab Music Ensembles in Egypt since 1967: ‘The Continuity of Tradition within a Contemporary Framework’?” Ethnomusicology, vol. 28, no. 2, 1984, pp. 271–288.
- Elias Taiseer: “The Latent Regularity in Improvisation of Instrumental Arab Music (taqasim) in Israel, in Terms of Learned and Natural Schemata.” Ph.D. dissertation, Music, 2007, Hebrew University.
Marcus, Scott. “The Interface between Theory and Practice: Intonation in Arab Music.” Asian Music, vol. 24, no. 2, 1993, pp. 39–58. - Al Faruqī, Lois Ibsen. “Ornamentation in Arabian Improvisational Music: A Study of Interrelatedness in the Arts.” The World of Music, vol. 20, no. 1, 1978, pp. 17–32.
- Nettl, Bruno. “World Music in the Twentieth Century: A Survey of Research on Western Influence.” Acta Musicologica, vol. 58, no. 2, 1986, pp. 360–373.
- Davis, Ruth. “Traditional Arab Music Ensembles in Tunis: Modernizing Al-Turath in the Shadow of Egypt.” Asian Music, vol. 28, no. 2, 1997, pp. 73–108. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/834475.
Bibliography
Here is a list of articles that were eye-opening to me in studying about Middle Eastern music.
Most of them are not free online, so try to search for items on this list and look for the article at a library or an online resource like Jstore if you have access to it through your college or institute.
1. Cohen, D., “An Investigation into the Tonal Structures of the Maqamat,” The Journal of the International Folk Music Council, vol. 16 (1964), pp. 103–106.
2. Cohen, D., “Patterns and Frameworks of Intonation,” Journal of Music Theory, vol. 13/1 (1969), pp. 66–92.
3. Cohen, D., “Separation and Directivity as Guiding Principles in the Comparison between Eastern and Western Music,” in Proceedings of the World Congress on Jewish Music, Jerusalem, 1978 (1982), pp. 127–147.
4. Cohen, D., “Some More about Style: On Comparison of Musical Styles of the East and of the West,” Israel Studies in Musicology, vol. 4 (1987), pp. 1–20.
5. Cohen, D., and R. Katz, “The Degree of Ornamentation as a Distinguishing Feature of Genres in Arabic Song” (Hebrew), Motar (Tel Aviv University, Faculty of the Arts), vol. 4, 1995, pp. 169–174.
6. Cohen, D., “Music in Different Cultures: Shared and Divergent Features,” Music in Time, 2007, pp. 1–29. See the complete list of publications by Dalya Cohen here: https://www.jamd.ac.il/
en/dalia_c_publications
7. Ali Jihad Racy, “Arabian Music and the Effects of Commercial Recording” The World of Music,Vol. 20, No. 1, the arab world (1978), pp. 47-58
8. Sawa, George D. “The Survival of Some Aspects of Medieval Arabic Performance Practice.” Ethnomusicology, vol. 25, no. 1, 1981, pp. 73–86.
9. El-Shawan, Salwa. “The Socio-Political Context of Al-Mūsīķa Al-Carabiyyaii in Cairo, Egypt: Policies, Patronage, Institutions, and Musical Change (1927-77).” Asian Music, vol. 12, no. 1, 1980, pp. 86–128.
10. El-Shawan, Salwa. “Traditional Arab Music Ensembles in Egypt since 1967: ‘The Continuity of Tradition within a Contemporary Framework’?” Ethnomusicology, vol. 28, no. 2, 1984, pp. 271–288.
11. Elias Taiseer: “The Latent Regularity in Improvisation of Instrumental Arab Music (taqasim) in Israel, in Terms of Learned and Natural Schemata.” Ph.D. dissertation, Music, 2007, Hebrew University.
12. Marcus, Scott. “The Interface between Theory and Practice: Intonation in Arab Music.” Asian Music, vol. 24, no. 2, 1993, pp. 39–58.
13. Al Faruqī, Lois Ibsen. “Ornamentation in Arabian Improvisational Music: A Study of Interrelatedness in the Arts.” The World of Music, vol. 20, no. 1, 1978, pp. 17–32.
14. Nettl, Bruno. “World Music in the Twentieth Century: A Survey of Research on Western Influence.” Acta Musicologica, vol. 58, no. 2, 1986, pp. 360–373.
15. Davis, Ruth. “Traditional Arab Music Ensembles in Tunis: Modernizing Al-Turath in the Shadow of Egypt.” Asian Music, vol. 28, no. 2, 1997, pp. 73–108. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/834475.