Sense and Sadness

Preface Telling history in motion Dismantled machinery Illusive empowerment Part One Modes of Thinking Chapter I Emotion and the Aesthetic [Snapshot] Emotion and the Economy of Aesthetics The emotional economy of aesthetics A living music Central marginality Music complexity Mode as metaphor Understanding through imagination A dynamic outlook on method [Snapshot] A scholarship of emotion Discursive subjectivities Scholar(ship) and subject(s) Situationality as liminality Aestheticizing the emotional Chapter II Edessan Christians in Hayy al-Suryan Unique sounds, against historic odds Syriac liturgy and theology Modern Christianity with ancient roots Begging pardon: Shubqono Forty times "Forty Bows" Early asceticism for modern worshippers Body, voice, and gendered spaces Part Two Modes of Knowledge Chapter III Eight Old Syriac Modes Definitions and tools Conventional European tools Local tools Music book and ontological value Written Sources "The Ethicon" and "The Pearls" Suryani musicology "Tableau sans ombres" Re-shifting focus Chapter IV Chant As Local Knowledge Contested modality A monastic perspective Music knowledge and Hayy al-Suryan Transcription Theoretical issues Local challenges Handwriting tradition Knowledge, modality, and influences Part Three Modes of Value Chapter V Suryaniness Ethnic spirituality Place/space and Urfa/Edessa Language Sound originality Sacred texts Sacred melodies Chapter VI Performing Value The Washing of the Feet Building up sadness Chapter VII Authority Performing authority [Snapshot] Value, one morning, and a camera Voicing authority Performative complexity Part Four Modalities of Song and Emotion Chapter VIII Hasho Huzn as religious aesthetic Hasho, a Syriac term Canonic sadness Aestheticized emotionality By the cross Hasho, the mode Epilogue Non-Conclusions Glossary References