HENRY GEORGE FARMER STUDIES IN ORIENTAL MUSIC

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1 HENRY GEORGE FARMER STUDIES IN ORIENTAL MUSIC First Volume: History and Theory Reprint of writings published in the years Edited by Eckhard Neubauer 1997 Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

2 100 copies printed Institut filr Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften B eethovenstrasse 32, D Frankfurt am Main First published in 1986 in the reprint series (Reihe B: Nachdrucke. Abteilung Musik. Band 1,1) Printed in Germany by Strauss Offsetdruck, D Morlenbach

3 TABLE OF CONTENTS First Volume: History and Theory 1. Minstrelsy and General Surveys: Music: The Priceless Jewel. From the Kiliib al-'iqd alfarid of Ib11 'Abd Rabbihi (d. 940). Edited and Translated... 1 Bearsden: Published by the Author, (=Collection of Oriental Writers on Music, 5.) The Minstrels of the Golden Age of Islam Islamic Culture , pp ; , pp An Anonymous English-Arabic Fragment on Music Islamic Culture , pp The Minstrelsy of "The Arabian Nights." A Study of Music and Musicians in the Arabic "Alf Laila wa Laila" Bearsden: Published by the Author ("Hinrichsen Edition No. 402" pasted over), The Religious Music of I slam Jownal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1952, pp Music The Legacy of Islam, eds. Sir Thomas Arnold and Alfred Guillaume. Oxford: Clarendon Press, and London: Oxford University Press, 1931, pp The Music of Islam Ancient and Oriental Music, ed. Egon Wellesz. London: Oxford University Press, 1957, pp , (=New Oxford History of Music. Vol. I.) Music A History of Muslim Philosophy, ed. M. M. Sharif. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, vol. II. 1966, pp

4 VI Table of contents 2. Musical Influences: Clues for the Arabian Influence on European Musical Theory Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1925, pp The Influence of Music: From Arabic Sources Proceedings of the Musical Association , pp The Oriental Musical Influence and Jewish Genizah Fragments on Music London and New York Hinrichsen, [1962]. The Oriental Impingement on European Music Islamic Studies , pp A Guess at the Origin and Meaning of Conductus Islamic Culture , pp Intuition and Music The Music Review , pp Manuscripts and Treatises: The Arabic Musical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. A Descriptive Catalogue with Illustrations of Musical Instruments London: William Reeves ("Hinrichsen" pasted over), Some Musical MSS. Identified Journal of the Royal Astauc Society 1926, pp "Ghosts". An Excursus on Arabic Musical Bibliographies : Isis , pp Tenth Century Arabic Books on Music: As contained in 'Kitiib al- Fihrist' of Abu' I-Faraj Mu/:lammad ibn al-nadlm Annual of Leeds University Oriental Society , pp Greek Theorists of Music in Arabic Translation Isis , pp. 325: The Ethos of Antiquity Islamic Studies , pp The Old Persian Musical Modes Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1926, pp

5 Table of contents VII The Old Arabian Melodic Modes Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1965, pp The Song Captions in the Kitab al-agh<inl al-kabir Transactions of the Glasgow University Oriental Society , pp Al-Kindl on the "Ethos" of Rhythm, Colour, and Peifume Transactions of the Glasgow University Oriental Society , pp The Science of Music in the Mafatl/; al-'ulum Transactions of the Glasgow University Oriental Society , pp Al-Farabl's Arabic-Latin Writings on Music Glasgow: Civic Press, Reprint New York, London and Frankfurt: Hinrichsen, [1965]. (=Collection of Oriental Writers on Music, 2.) The Jewish Debt to Arabic Writers on Music Islamic Culture , pp Mediaeval Jewish Writers on Music The Music Review , pp Maimonides on Listening to Music. From the Responsa of Moses ben Maimon (d. 1204). The Texts edited, with Translations, and Commentary Bearsden: Published by the Author, Reprint Hinrichsen Edition, No. 953, no date.(= Mediaeval Jewish Tracts on Music, 1.) Sa'adyah Gaon on the Influence of Music London: Arthur Probsthain, The Contemporary Scene: The Congress of Arabian Music. Cairo, Transactions of the Glasgow University Oriental Society , pp Rapport general sur Les tr,avaux de la Commission d'histoire et des Manuscrits \Recueil des Travaux du Congres de Musique Arabe [Le Caire, 1932]. Le Caire: Imprimerie Nationale, 1934, pp

6 VIII Table of contents Histoire abregee de l'echelle de la musique arabe Ibidem, pp Traduction du Discours du Dr. Henri Farmer d la Seance de Cloture du Congres Ibidem, pp Quarter-Tones and Arabian Influences African Music , p. 61. Second Volume: Instruments and Military Music 1. Three Collections of Articles: Studies in Oriental Musical Instruments. First Series... 1 London: Harold Reeves, [A collection of eight articles, originally printed in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society between 1925 and 1930, "revised in some way or other"] - The Mediaeval Psaltery in the Orient... : The Origin of the Eschaquiel Two Eastern Organs A North African Folk Instrument Ninth Century Musical Instruments A Note on the Miznuir and Nay Meccan Musical Instruments The Origin of the Arabian Lute and Rebec Studies in Oriental Musical Instruments. second Series Glasgow: Civic Press, [Seven articles, originally printed in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society between 1934 and 1939, "some of them considerably altered"] -Reciprocal Influences in Music Twixt the Far and Middle Eqst A Magjyibi Work on Musical Instruments

7 Table of contents IX - An Old Moorish Lute Tutor The Lute Scale of Avicenna Was the Arabian and Persian Lute Fretted? The Musical Instruments/Instruments of Music/on the Tiiq-i Bustiin Bas-Re/iefs The Structure of the Arabian and Persian Lute in the Middle Ages 221 Oriental Studies: Mainly Musical London and New York: Hinrichsen, (1953). ("Reissues [of eight articles]... having appeared, during the last ten years, in the JRAS, the TGUOS, and in Studia Semitica et Orientalia") - Early References to Music in the Western Sudiin The Musical Instruments of the Sumerians and Assyrians Turkish Musical Instruments in the Fifteenth Century William Hunter and his Arabic Interest The Importance of Ethnological Studies What is Arabian Music? An Early Greek P andore Thirteenth Century Arabian Instruments/Arabian Musical Instruments on a Thirteenth Century Bronze Bowl Musical Instruments in Pre-Islamic and Islamic Societies: The Study of Musical Instruments in Primitive Culture Transactions of the Glasgow University Oriental Society , pp Ancient Egyptian Instruments of Music Transactions of the Glasgow University Oriental Society , pp The Organ of the Ancients. From Eastern Sources (Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic) London: William Reeves, 1931.

8 x Table of contents Byzantine Musical Instruments in the Ninth Century Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1925, pp Separate printing London: Reeves 1925, pp The Evolution of the Tanbilr or P andore Transactions of the Glasgow University Oriental Society , pp An Old Moorish Lute Tutor. Being Four Arabic Texts from Unique Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid (No. 334) and the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin (Lbg. 516). Edited with Translations, Commentary. and an Appendix Glasgow: Civic Press, (= Collectlon of Oriental Writers on Music, 1.) 'Abdalqadir ibn Gaibi on Instruments of Music Oriens , pp Iranian Musical Instruments in the Ninth/Fifteenth Century Islamic Culture , pp Turkish Instruments of Music in the Seventeenth Century. As described in the Siya/;lat nama of Ewliya Chelebi. Translation edlted with Notes... : Glasgow: Civic Press, ( = Collection of Oriental Writers on Music, 3.) Corrigenda to the 'Siya/;lat Nama' of Evliya Chelebi Ortens , pp Instruments and Influences in Military Music: :; Oriental Influences on Occidental Military Music Islamic Culture , pp Turkish Influence in Military Music Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 1946, pp f82. - Crusading Martial Music Music and Letters , pp