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dhawq, or “courtesy” in music accompaniment

This section of Racy’s “Making Music in the Arab World” could be just as applicable to the non-Arab musician. In the chapter titled simply, Music, he begins the section titled “The art of accompanying” with When called for, musical accompaniment plays a crucial role in the evocative process. Basically, an accompanying performer must be musically [...]

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2010 07 29 Jon Silpayamanant Aesthetics Comments (0)

on being a fannan asil…

I posted a bit about “authenticity” and the issues modernization and Westernization in indigenous Art Music traditions previously. Here’s a quote from Ali Jihad Racy’s article, “Musical Aesthetics in Present-Day Cairo,” that illustrates a broad pan-Arabic sense of some of the issues with descriptive phrases used in value judgments about musical activities: Common in Cairo [...]

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2009 03 03 Jon Silpayamanant Music Theory
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