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List of contents
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 Uğur Ekinci
4 Itri’s ‘Nühüft Sakil’ in the Context of Sakil Peşrevs 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 Kâr-ı 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 maqām traditions: the Uyghur On Ikki Muqam and the Kashmiri Sūfyāna Musīqī
Rachel Harris
12 The Terminology of Vocal Performance in Iranian Khorasan
About the author
Rachel Harris is Reader in the Music of China and Central Asia at SOAS, University of London, UK. Her research interests include global musical flows, identity politics, gender, and ritual practice. She is the author of two books on musical life in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and co-editor of three books. She currently leads an AHRC Research Network and the Leverhulme Research Project ‘Sounding Islam in China’. She is actively engaged with outreach projects relating to Central Asian and Chinese music, including recordings, musical performance, and consultancy.
Martin Stokes is King Edward Professor of Music at King's College, London, UK. He has taught ethnomusicology at Queen's University Belfast, the University of Chicago, and Oxford. He is the author of The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey (1992), and The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy and Turkish Popular Music (2010). His edited volumes include Ethnicity, Identity and Music (1994) and (with Karin Van Neiuwkerk and Mark Levine) Islam and Popular Culture (2015).
Summary
This volume is dedicated to Owen Wright in recognition of his formative contribution to the study of music in the Islamic Middle East. Ranging across the Middle East, Central Asia and North India, it brings together historical, philological and ethnographic approaches. The contributors focus on collections of musical notation and song texts, on
