In tarab music, the ability to play or sing in correct pitch is another requisite for creating ecstatically effective performances. Essentially, few theoretical works describe the ecstatic role of intonation, despite the abundance of treatises and text-books that deal with tuning and modal scales. Furthermore, in such sources melodic intervals are most often presented in [...]
Also tagged Arabic Music, Microtonal Music, scalesInterestingly, I’m getting quite a few comments, feedback, and discussion on these posts. They just happen to be over at my facebook page (you’ll probably need to be logged in to view my profile). I’ve basically imported this blog via the feed into the facebook notes so as I post here, eventually my facebook wall [...]
Also tagged BloggingCalling a music microtonal is really such an unfortunate and misleading thing and belies alot of the assumptions that we make (in the world of Western Music) about how another culture’s music is organized. Basically we take as a standard Western diatonicism and when discussing other culture’s scale systems (the idea of a “scale” is [...]
Also tagged Arabic Music, Cello, Microtonal Music, scales