Farraj & Shumays - Inside Arabic Music

Inside Arabic Music is a comprehensive introduction to Arabic music, theory, and performance. Basing their work largely on oral traditions of performance practice, renowned musicians Johnny Farraj and Sami Abu Shumays cover melodic and percussion instruments, vocal and instrumental forms, ornamentation, improvisation, rhythm, ensembles and arrangement, the Arabic Maqam, the tuning system, and Tarab.

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CONTENTS

0 Introduction
1 Melodic Instruments
2 Arabized Instruments
3 Percussion Instruments
4 Ensembles
5 Ornamentation
6 Rhythm
7 A Sampling of Arabic Iqa'at
8 Song Forms
9 Instrumental Forms
10 Arrangement
11 Tuning System
12 Notation
13 The Jins
14 The Most Common Ajnas
15 Less Common Ajnas
16 Newly Classified Ajnas
17 The Maqam
18 The Maqam Scale
19 Modulation
20 Sayr
21 The Taqsim
22 Vocal Improvisation
23 Tarab
24 Maqam Index