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Music and its virtues in Islamic and Judaic writings
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- Creator
- Amnon Shiloah
- Format
- Books
- Languages
- English, French
- Publication
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- Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]
- ©2007
- Series
- Physical Details
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- [xii, 318] : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780754659181, 0754659186
- OCLC
- ocn132303112
- Primarily previously published material (original pagination retained).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Text in English or French.
- 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 -- Réflexions sur la danse artistique musulmane au moyen âge
- The symbolic, philosophical and metaphorical interpretation of music. L'approche humaniste et métaphorique dans les premiers écrits arabes sur la musique -- La musique entre le divin et le terrestre -- "Ên-kol" : commentaire hébraïque sur le Canon d'Avicenne par Šem Tov ibn Šaprût sur le canon d'Avicenne -- Jewish and Muslim traditions of music therapy
- The transmission of musical knowledge. Qalonimus ben Qalonimus : Ma'amar be-mispar haḥok̲hmôt -- Musical concepts in the works of Saadia Gaon -- Some comments on the cantillation of the Ten commandments -- A propos d'un "petit livre arabe de musique" (with A. Berthier) -- Notions d'esthétique dans les traités arabes sur la musique -- L'évolution de la vocalité et de la technique vocale dans les traités anciens de la musique arabe
- The ideological attitude towards music. Music and religion in Islam -- Maïmonide et la musique
- Music in contact. The Romaniot musical tradition (revised version) -- Development of Jewish liturgical singing in Spain -- Muslim and Jewish musical traditions of the Middle Ages -- Andalusian instruments of music and instruments of entertainment