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1 online resource (xxiii, 280 pages) : illustrations, music |
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Music and performance in Muslim contexts |
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Music and performance in Muslim contexts.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-261) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. History and culture of the Mevlevi dervishes. Introduction: Continuities and ruptures in the Mevlevi tradition ; Defining the mystical music of the Mevlevi dervishes ; The Mevlevi phenomenon ; Development and cultural affinities of the Mevlevi ayin ; The ney in Mevlevi music ; The Mevlevi neyzen as an ideal representative of Ottoman culture -- Part II. Music of the Mevlevis. The position of music within the Mevleviye ; The musical structure of the ayin ; Music, poetry, and composition in the ayin ; The sema'i in the third selam and the Son yürük sema'i : nucleus of the antecedent samā'? -- Postlude: Music, poetry, and mysticism in the Ottoman Empire. |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (EBSCOhost, May 10, 2022). |
| Summary |
Walter Feldman traces the historical development of Mevlevi music and the spiritual legacy of Rumi. He brings to light the remarkable musical and mystical aesthetics of the Mevlevi ayin - the instrumental and vocal accompaniment to the sublime ceremony of the 'Whirling' Dervishes. |
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Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJgMypvXXpDHdFXrgHCxXd
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Mevleviyeh.
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Sufi music -- History and criticism.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
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Empire ottoman -- Histoire.
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HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire.
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Mevleviyeh
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
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Sufi music
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Turkey https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxmHG9jJjCTM3y4pFRqcP
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1288-1918
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Feldman, Walter. From Rumi to the whirling dervishes. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022 1474491855 9781474491853 (OCoLC)1264138242 |
| ISBN |
9781474491877 (electronic bk.) |
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1474491871 (electronic bk.) |
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9781474491884 (electronic bk.) |
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147449188X (electronic bk.) |
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