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An Old Moorish Lute Tutor (cont.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Henry George Farmer
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Since my article on the above appeared, additional information has come to hand which appears to be of sufficient merit to be recorded, more especially because this old music of the Moors is gradually disappearing. At the invitation of the Egyptian Government, I attended a Congress of Arabian Music which was held in Cairo during March and April, 1932, where I had the honour to preside over the Commission of History and Manuscripts. During this congress I had the opportunity of studying, at first hand, the practical as well as the theoretical art. The best native orchestras from Arabic speaking lands were in attendance, and among them were three from Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. These latter included in their répertoires the old Maghriban melodies from the ṭubū', naubāt, or ṣan'āt. At these auditions, and from conversations with the musicians, but more especially through information obtained from Sīdī Ḥasan 'Abd al-Wahhāb the Governor of Mahdia, and Sīdī Muḥammad al-Manūbī al-Sanūsī of Tūnis, I had confirmation by eye and ear of that which hitherto had only been known to me by script.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 64 , Issue 4 , October 1932 , pp. 897 - 904
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1932

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page 897 note 1 The author of a small book on the music of the Maghrib.

page 897 note 2 One of the collaborators of D'Erlanger, Baron Rodolphe in his La musique arabe, Tome i, “Al-Fārābī,” Paris, 1930Google Scholar.

page 897 note 3 See p. 384. JRAS. (1932).

4 See p. 381, JRAS. (1932).

page 898 note 1 See p. 357, JRAS. (1931).

page 899 note 1 This is omitted from the “tree”, but since Ramal and Ramal al-māya are included in the verses, it is obvious that the omission of Ramal al-dīl is due to the copyist's slip.

page 899 note 2 Yafil, and Rouanet, , Répertoire de musique arabe et maure, Algiers, 1904, Fasc. 11 and 25Google Scholar.

page 900 note 1 Chap. v.

page 900 note 2 pp. 8–9, see JRAS., Jan., 1925, p. 67.

page 900 note 3 Laborde, , Essai sur la musiqie (1780), i, 182Google Scholar.

page 900 note 4 Meninski, , Thesaurus linguarum orientalium (1680)Google Scholar, s.v. “Durr.”

page 900 note 5 Sloane MS., 3114, fol. 184.

page 900 note 6 The Legacy of Islām, ed. by Arnold, and Guillaume, (1931), p. 372Google Scholar.

page 901 note 1 Vide Minutes (16th and 23rd March) of the Commission of History and Manuscripts: Congress of Arabian Music, Cairo, 1932.

page 902 note 1 See my brochure, , The Influence of Music; From Arabic Sources (1926)Google Scholar.

page 902 note 2 Berlin MSS. (Ahlwardt), 5503 and 5530.

page 902 note 3 Rasā'il, Bombay ed., i, 101, 116.

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page 903 note 1 Meibom, , Ant. Mus. Auct., lib, iiiGoogle Scholar.

page 903 note 2 Ibn Sīnā's account of the appropriate times for performing particular modes is not given in either the Shifā or the Najāt, but is quoted in an anonymous work on music dedicated to the Turkish suṭān Murād II (Brit. Museum MS., Or. 2361, fol. 201 v). It may have been derived from another work by Ibn Sīnā, a Madkhal ilā ṣinā'at al-mūsīqī (Introduction to the Art of Music), which has not come down to us.

In my History of Arabian Music (p. 128) I mentioned a book by Al-Kindī which is not found in the lists drawn up in the Fihrist, Ibn al-Qifṭī or Ibn Abī Uṣaibi'a. Recently the head of the manuscript department of the National Library at Cairo called my attention to another book by Al-Kindī on music, which is quoted in the Ṭabaqāt al-umām by Abū'l-Qāsim ibu Sa'īd al-Andalusī (p. 52). One suspects, however, that this is the Kitāb mu'nis fī'l-mūsīqī, written about the theories of Al-Kindī by Manṣūr ibn Ṭalḥca ibn Ṭāhir mentioned in the Fihrist (p. 117).

page 903 note 1 See Lavignac, , Encyclopédie de la musique, v, 2883Google Scholar; Delphin, and Guin, , Notes sur la poésie et la musique arabes, 63Google Scholar.