Musical Instruments as Objects of Meaning in Classical Arabic Poetry and Philosophy
/ presented by Yaron Klein
The Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
2009.
263p.
: ills.
UMI Microform 3385552
Code E.Dissertation: 38
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Ph.D
Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
This dissertation examines representations of musical instruments in medieval Arabic descriptive poetry (wasf) and philosophical-musicological writings. The analysis explores the symbolic value and meanings ascribed to musical instruments, and how each of the two discourses referred to instruments to make sense of music, the world and human experience. It has analyzed the descriptions of musical instruments by a variety of wasf poets which should be seen as a literary development of creative art, and also as a literary space that promoted and shaped the new urban culture.
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