Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World
Essays in Honour of Owen Wright

Edited By Rachel Harris, Martin Stokes





Table 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 ‘Nuhuft 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