source file: mills3.txt Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 21:56:12 +0100 Subject: Re: Arabic Tunings From: Polychroni Moniodis On 5 Dec 97 at 19:30, Brian Lee wrote: Dear Brian, > At 20:28 05/12/97 GMT, you wrote: > > > >If anyone knows of a decent treatment of this subject in English, in > >particular with regard to Zalzal, Al-Farabi, and Safi ad-Din, it > >would be most appreciated. > > I'd recommend > The Modal System of Arab and Persian Music by O.Wright > London Oriental Series Vol 28 Published by Oxford University Press > in 1978. This has been recommended to me before, but I've never picked it up--largely because the title seems to narrow the scope of the topic considerably. But, today, I did go out and pick it up. Fingers crossed that it will provide some insight. > > In it you'll find plenty of maqamat and tetrachords notated in cents > if I remember correctly. Hopefully, I be able to divine the interval-ratios from these. > > If you're looking for lute frettings and tunings then the two > sources that I've found useful are New Oxford History of Music Vol 1 > - Ancient and Oriental music I've got this--should have mentioned so, earlier. While this shows the 145 and 168 interval (called, the Persian mujannab and Zalzal's mujannab, respectively), I still don't have a clue on how you arrive at these two intervals. > and The Greek Aulos by Kathleen > Schlesinger. Methuen 1939 (regrettably out of print) Does this cover the Islamic tunings as well? > > Brian Lee Thanks for the response, regards, Polychroni Moniodis SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: James Kukula Subject: repeating patterns PostedDate: 08-12-97 22:24:01 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 08-12-97 22:22:09-08-12-97 22:22:10,08-12-97 22:21:58-08-12-97 22:21:58 DeliveredDate: 08-12-97 22:21:58 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C1256567.0075604B; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 22:22:03 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA09977; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 22:24:01 +0100 Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 22:24:01 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA09976 Received: (qmail 2222 invoked from network); 8 Dec 1997 13:23:58 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Dec 1997 13:23:58 -0800 Message-Id: <199712082120.NAA03772@sunatg3> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu