The Science of Music
Knowledge Production in Medieval Baghdad and Beyond
Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-50254-2 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-50254-2 (ISBN)
This book offers a detailed analysis of how the science of music was a part of a larger intellectual and sociocultural context in the medieval Islamic world. It is intended for scholars and students interested in the history of science and the intellectual history of the pre-modern Islamic world.
How did the pre-modern Islamic intellectual tradition conceptualize, produce, and disseminate scientific knowledge? What can we learn about pre-modern Islamic civilizations from the way they examined and studied the universe? In answering these fundamental questions, Mohammad Sadegh Ansari provides a unique perspective for the study of both musicology and intellectual history. Widely considered to be an art today,music in the medieval Islamic world was categorized as one of the four branches of the mathematical sciences, alongside arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy; indeed, some philosophers and scholars of music went as far as linking music with medicine and astrology as part of an interconnected web of cosmological knowledge. This innovative book raises fascinating questions about how designating music a 'science rather than an 'art' impacts our understanding of truth, and reconstructs a richly holistic medieval system of knowledge in the process.
How did the pre-modern Islamic intellectual tradition conceptualize, produce, and disseminate scientific knowledge? What can we learn about pre-modern Islamic civilizations from the way they examined and studied the universe? In answering these fundamental questions, Mohammad Sadegh Ansari provides a unique perspective for the study of both musicology and intellectual history. Widely considered to be an art today,music in the medieval Islamic world was categorized as one of the four branches of the mathematical sciences, alongside arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy; indeed, some philosophers and scholars of music went as far as linking music with medicine and astrology as part of an interconnected web of cosmological knowledge. This innovative book raises fascinating questions about how designating music a 'science rather than an 'art' impacts our understanding of truth, and reconstructs a richly holistic medieval system of knowledge in the process.
Mohammad Sadegh Ansari is Assistant Professor of History of the Pre-Modern Islamic World at State University of New York, Geneseo. He has previously contributed articles to journals including the Journal of Abbasid Studies as well as the Journal Philological Encounters.
Introduction; 1. Music and Mathematics in an Interconnected Web of Cosmic Relations; 2. Learning the Science of Music in Medieval Baghdad; 3. Al-Urmawi's Baghdad Before and After the Coming of the Mongols; 4. al-Urmawi Goes to the Mustansiriyya: How to Learn the Science of Music; 5. Note, Sharpness, and Heaviness; 6. Ratio and Interval; 7. Consonance and Dissonance; Conclusions; Epilogue; Appendix A; Appendix B; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 513 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-50254-9 / 1009502549 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-50254-2 / 9781009502542 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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