For students of Arabic and Jewish music and culture or of medieval musical thought and theory, presents 15 previously published articles (five in French) on the symbolic and metaphorical interpretatio
Jewish Musical Traditions is the first English-language volume to consider oral music of Jewish communities in a sociocultural context. Amnon Shiloah, the world's leading authority on the Arab and Jew
The story of music told in this book begins in pre-Islamic times with musical forms that bear strong imprints of the Bedouin’s tribal way of life. Pre-Islamic music can be viewed as the forerunner of
Musicologist Henry George Farmer (1882-1965) participated in the First International Congress of Arab Music in Cairo in 1932. His journal and minutes, which are presented in this book, reveal aspects
