Download or read book The Mukhtar Method Arabic Music Theory I II written by Ahmed Mukhtar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Arabic Music Theory I book guides students through the basics of music literacy. Students will have acquired the essential skills needed to read musical scores and use solfege exercises. Topics covered will include basic rhythms, note names, time value, key signatures, and accidental notes. Music Theory II is designed to guide students through learning the basic elements of the maqam system. Students will learn to fine-tune their ear to recognize each of the main maqamaat and understand the ways in which each of them is constructed, transposed, and intertwine with one another. Complex and syncopated rhythms will also be explored"--Publisher marketing.

Download or read book The Mukhtar Method Oud Ensemble I II written by Ahmed Mukhtar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book "provides students with the opportunity to progress their performance skills while adding ornamentation to popular pieces of music. Maqamaat covered are Maqam Ajam, Nahawand, Rast and Bayat. The ornamentation skills applied to the repertoire provided are the tremolo, trill, and the use of qarar and jawab. The Oud Ensemble II book covers Maqam Kurd, Hijaz, Saba, and Segah. Learners are guided through the application of musical ornamentations that have been previously covered on a new set of maqamaat and pieces as well as adding more complex skills such as the glissando and vibrato. Learners will also be expected to practice playing more than one ornamentation simultaneously within a maqam scale and musical piece"--Publisher marketing.

Download or read book The Mukhtar Method Oud Beginner written by Ahmed Mukhtar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-02 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written for beginner Oud students with no experience playing the Oud. The objective of the course is to acquire the basic techniques used to play the Oud and understand the characteristics of the maqam music system by studying the eight fundamental maqamaat together with popular traditional repertoire. No previous musical knowledge is required to begin this course, as most music is notated as tablature, a visual representation which does not require understanding of music notation. However, it helps to have basic knowledge of music theory, rhythm, note names and notation.

Download or read book The Mukhtar Method Oud Upper Advanced written by Ahmed Mukhtar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book has been written for learners who know most technical and theoretical techniques used on the oud. Such skills include playing accurately in all three positions; playing a maqam or a song in only the 2nd or 3rd positions; using ornamentation in the 2nd position and sometimes the 3rd; knowing maqam transpositions from main notes and open strings; and understanding different kinds of technical transpositions. In this book, most of the pieces studied are very well-known master pieces. A masterpiece is a piece of music that combines high technique with a high level of expressing the feeling, spirit, and soul of the music being played. This feeling is known as rouhiyyah in Arabic. The material in this book will guide you through these masterpieces and simplify the way they are played to help you progress using correct playing techniques"--Publisher marketing.

Download or read book The Mukhtar Method Oud Upper Beginner written by Ahmed Mukhtar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book has been written for oud students who have completed the Oud Beginner Book. The principal maqamaat will be further analyzed with a higher level of risha and fingering technique such as the addition of a second octave and playing in the second position. New traditional instrumental oud pieces and songs have been added to the repertoire. The book begins with Maqam Rast, Bayat, Saba, and Segah to emphasise the importance of quarter-tones"--Publisher marketing.

Download or read book The Mukhtar Method Darbuka Beginner Intermediate written by Ahmed Mukhtar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-22 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "beginner book covers basic techniques such as correct holding position; producing correct tones; correct right- and left-hand strokes; and reading darbuka music notation. Popular basic rhythms covered include Wahda, Maqsoum, Ayyoub, Malfouf. The ... intermediate book will help learners improve their basic playing techniques. More advanced playing techniques and complex rhythms will be covered. An emphasis will be placed on producing accurate tones while adding ornamentation"--Publisher marketing.

Download or read book The Mukhtar Method Oud Intermediate written by Ahmed Mukhtar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book has been written for oud students who have completed the material covered in the Mukhtar Method series up until the Oud Upper Beginner book. This course aims to introduce students to the practical concepts of transposition by playing musical pieces and maqamaat from different keys and in the second position. Some secondary maqamaat will be introduced along with longer more complex pieces, many of which contain maqam modulations"--Publisher marketing.

Download or read book The Mukhtar Method Oud Advanced written by Ahmed Mukhtar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oud Advanced book has been designed for students who are comfortable playing the oud using a high level of technique and wish to further advance their playing skills. Students are required to have completed the Upper Intermediate book with a high level of achievement and be able comfortably read music notation without the use of tablatures. This book will cover multiple techniques of oud playing including a high level of applying ornamentation patterns such as qarar and jawab, the use of trills. Modulations, secondary maqamaat, and the use of all three playing positions will also be practiced. These techniques will be practiced and applied while playing a variety of complicated repertoires providing students with a challenging set of skills to improve their playing"--Publisher marketing.

Download or read book The Mukhtar Method Oud Upper Intermediate written by Ahmed Mukhtar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-02 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written for Oud students who are confident players and have successfully completed the material covered in the Mukhtar Method series up until the Oud Intermediate course book. The objective of this course is to further progress students' playing techniques as well as their understanding of the maqam system. Transpositions of Maqam Nahawand, Kurd and Bayat will be further analyzed with a higher level of risha and fingering technique. New secondary maqamaat and some of their transpositions will be introduced including Maqam Lami and Bayat Shur. Longer musical pieces will be covered, many of which contain maqam modulations. Some pieces will also be played in a transposed key. A higher level of technique is applied and pitch precision is emphasized.

Download or read book The Mukhtar Method Oud Beginners written by Ahmed Mukhtar and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written for beginner Oud students with no experience playing the Oud. The objective of the course is to acquire the basic techniques used to play the Oud and understand the characteristics of the maqam music system by studying the eight primary maqamaat together with popular traditional repertoire. No previous musical knowledge is required to begin this course, as most music is notated as tablature, a visual representation which does not require an understanding of music notation. However, it helps to have basic knowledge of music theory, rhythm, note names and notation. To make your oud learning journey with The Mukhtar Method curriculum series as accessible as possible, The Mukhtar Method Oud Beginner - 3rd edition, is accompanied by audio-visual material. This material is available on the Taqasim Music School's YouTube Channel and is openly available to you to support your learning.

Download or read book ARABIC MUSIC AND THE OUD written by Ahmed Mukhtar and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written on the subject of Arabic music, most of them by Western authors who presented the subject from a Western perspective with no knowledge of Arabic music other than from theories reported by authors relying mainly on other Western and often inaccurate sources. Ahmed Mukhtar's book is most important because, precisely, it narrates his account of Arabic music, and especially oud music, from the perspective of an accomplished oudist and composer who has received his knowledge principally from oral transmission which sometimes conflicted with historiography. However, oral transmission is a fundamental epistemological tool of Arabic culture of which the West is suspicious. I have often heard stories about early Arabic music by musicians from Damascus, to Baghdad, to Fez which I often disdained as tales but then, decades later, I found out that they were supported by manuscripts. In a land which commits its Holy Book to the memory of the Hafiz, is it not reasonable to assume that the history of music, too would have been committed to orality? Western musicology should revise their views about the transmission of Arabic theory and rely on probability rather than on subjectivity. Was it not Farmer who said that the Arabs had a lute twice the size of the normal type? I never heard such a story from the mouths of any Arab musicians...

Download or read book History of Arabic Music Theory written by Shireen Maalouf and published by . This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title offers a history of Arabic music theory. It explores changes and continuity in the tone systems, genres and scales.

Download or read book ARABIC MUSIC AND THE OUD Paperback written by Ahmed Mukhtar and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written on the subject of Arabic music, most of them by Western authors who presented the subject from a Western perspective with no knowledge of Arabic music other than from theories reported by authors relying mainly on other Western and often inaccurate sources. Ahmed Mukhtar's book is most important because, precisely, it narrates his account of Arabic music, and especially oud music, from the perspective of an accomplished oudist and composer who has received his knowledge principally from oral transmission which sometimes conflicted with historiography. However, oral transmission is a fundamental epistemological tool of Arabic culture of which the West is suspicious. I have often heard stories about early Arabic music by musicians from Damascus, to Baghdad, to Fez which I often disdained as tales but then, decades later, I found out that they were supported by manuscripts. In a land which commits its Holy Book to the memory of the Hafiz, is it not reasonable to assume that the history of music, too would have been committed to orality? Western musicology should revise their views about the transmission of Arabic theory and rely on probability rather than on subjectivity. Was it not Farmer who said that the Arabs had a lute twice the size of the normal type? I never heard such a story from the mouths of any Arab musicians...

Download or read book The Mukhtar Method Oud Ensemble I II 3rd Edition written by Ahmed Mukhtar and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides students with the opportunity to further progress their performance skills while adding ornamentation to popular pieces of music. The maqamaat covered in the first book are: Maqam Ajam, Nahawand, Rast and Bayat. While the maqamaat in the second book are: Hijaz, Kurd, Saba and Segah. These maqamaat will be explored in depth. They will be played transposed, on two strings and using several left-hand positions. This will help develop the strength of your fingers, prepare you to play more complex trills and produce a variety of different sounds that will significantly improve your oud playing skills. Many ornamentations will also be explored. These include, long and short tremolos, vibratos, trills, qarar and jawab, grace notes and a combination of ornamentations played at once. As part of exploring more ornamentation, some pieces will be played transposed to allow for more room for adding different forms of ornamentations while other pieces will be played on a different octave. Acquiring all these skills will set you on your way to becoming a proficient solo oud player.

Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity written by Oliver Nicholson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 1743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity is the first comprehensive reference book covering every aspect of history, culture, religion, and life in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East (including the Persian Empire and Central Asia) between the mid-3rd and the mid-8th centuries AD, the era now generally known as Late Antiquity. This period saw the re-establishment of the Roman Empire, its conversion to Christianity and its replacement in the West by Germanic kingdoms, the continuing Roman Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Persian Sassanian Empire, and the rise of Islam. Consisting of over 1.5 million words in more than 5,000 A-Z entries, and written by more than 400 contributors, it is the long-awaited middle volume of a series, bridging a significant period of history between those covered by the acclaimed Oxford Classical Dictionary and The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. The scope of the Dictionary is broad and multi-disciplinary; across the wide geographical span covered (from Western Europe and the Mediterranean as far as the Near East and Central Asia), it provides succinct and pertinent information on political history, law, and administration; military history; religion and philosophy; education; social and economic history; material culture; art and architecture; science; literature; and many other areas. Drawing on the latest scholarship, and with a formidable international team of advisers and contributors, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity aims to establish itself as the essential reference companion to a period that is attracting increasing attention from scholars and students worldwide.

Download or read book Making the Great Book of Songs written by Hilary Kilpatrick and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematic literary study of one of the masterpieces of classical Arabic literature, the fourth/tenth century Kitâb al-aghânî (The Book of Songs) by Abû I-Faraj al-Isbahânî. Until now the twenty-four volume Book of Songs has been regarded as a rather chaotic but priceless mine of information about classical Arabic music, literature and culture. This book approaches it as a work of literature in its own right, with its own internal logic and coherence. The study also consistently integrates the musical component into the analysis and proposes a reading of the work in which individual anecdotes and poems are related to the wider context, enhancing their meaning.

Download or read book Inside Arabic Music written by Johnny Farraj and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes hundreds of listeners cheer ecstatically at the same instant during a live concert by Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum? What is the unspoken language behind a taqsim (traditional instrumental improvisation) that performers and listeners implicitly know? How can Arabic music be so rich and diverse without resorting to harmony? Why is it so challenging to transcribe Arabic music from a recording? Inside Arabic Music answers these and many other questions from the perspective of two "insiders" to the practice of Arabic music, by documenting a performance culture and a know-how that is largely passed on orally. Arabic music has spread across the globe, influencing music from Greece all the way to India in the mid-20th century through radio and musical cinema, and global popular culture through Raqs Sharqi, known as "Bellydance" in the West. Yet despite its popularity and influence, Arabic music, and the maqam scale system at its heart, remain widely misunderstood. Inside Arabic Music de-mystifies maqam with an approach that draws theory directly from practice, and presents theoretical insights that will be useful to practitioners, from the beginner to the expert - as well as those interested in the related Persian, Central Asian, and Turkish makam traditions. Inside Arabic Music's discussion of maqam and improvisation widens general understanding of music as well, by bringing in ideas from Saussurean linguistics, network theory, and Lakoff and Johnson's theory of cognition as metaphor, with an approach parallel to Gjerdingen's analysis of Galant-period music - offering a lens into the deeper relationships among music, culture, and human community.