Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World

Introduction - Tuning the Past: The Work of Owen Wright

Martin Stokes

Part I: Ottoman Legacies

1 New Light on Cantemir

Eckhard Neubauer

2 Towards a New Theory of Historical Change in the Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire

Jacob Olley

3 Not Just Any Usul: Semai In Pre-Nineteenth-Century Performance Practice

Mehmet Ugur Ekinci

4 Itri's 'Nuehueft Sakil' in the Context of Sakil Pesrevs in the Seventeenth Century

Walter Feldman

5 Giambattista Toderini and the 'Musica Turchesca'

Giovanni De Zorzi

6 At the House of Kemal: Private musical gatherings of Istanbul from the late Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic

Panagiotis C. Poulos

7 Kar-i Nev: Elongation and Elaboration in Recordings of a Turkish Classic

John O'Connell

8 Measuring intervals between European and 'Eastern' musics in the 1920s: The curious case of the panharmonion or 'Greek organ'

Eleni Kallimopoulou

Part II: Historical and theoretical themes in the music of the Islamic world

9 "Words Without Songs": The social history of Hindustani song collections in India's Muslim courts c.1770-1830

Katherine Butler Schofield

10 The music of the Timurids and its legacy in Afghanistan

John Baily

11 Theory and practice in contemporary Central Asian maqam traditions: the Uyghur On Ikki Muqam and the Kashmiri Sufyana Musiqi

Rachel Harris

12 The Terminology of Vocal Performance in Iranian Khorasan

Stephen Blum

13 Whispering to God: Monajat in Khorasan

Ameneh Youssefzadeh

14 Between Formal Structure and Performance Practice: On the Baghdadi Secular Cycles

Scheherezade Hassan

15 Al-Farabi's Qanun: A Re-Exposition of Ptolemy's Kanon as a Didactic Instrument for the Tone System

George Sawa

Postlude - Conversation with Owen Wright

Rachel Harris

Owen Wright: Full Bibliography

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