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Article: Arabische Musik und Notenschrift.
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- June 1, 1997
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Arabische Musik und Notenschrift focuses on the "estrangement" of a musical culture from music notation. Issam El-Mallah provides three main chapters, in which he pursues a different aspect of the notation of Arabic music. First he inquires into the major music treatises of the ninth, thirteenth, and nineteenth centuries and concludes that, except for tablature (that gives a name to a tone and identifies a fret on the neck of the lute), music notation has never been applied in Arabic music as a visual replacement for music. Although music treatises on Arabic music do report abundantly ever since the ninth century on music theory, on musical instruments, musicians, singing, ...