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By Henry George Farmer.
•4 Eastern Kemendjah Player.
T,i /ace parje 160.
Notes on Arab Music and Musical Instruments.
By Henry George Farmer.
1.
SCIENCE OF ABAB MUSIC.
|INCE the downfall of Arab polity and civilisation in Spain, the Arabs (at least those of Mauretania) seem to have lost the science of their music* Shaw, in his "Travels in Barbary" (1757) says the Arabs and Moors do not write down their composi- tions, and have no science of music, every- thing being learned by ear, yet, he says
..., "the greatest uniformity and exactness is always pre- served throughout their performances." *»- * In Persia, however, in the eighteenth century, a traveller speaking of native musicians said, "they learn by rule and play by note." — Pinkerton's " Collection of Voy- ages," etc.
169 170 Notes on Arab Music. s 1 Niebuhr ("Travels in Arabia," i^Qo) says they \ "use no notes but sing by ear." Addison ("West ( Barbary," 1671) says he was told th.3X formerly every !
mosque had a layman who " understood the cadences ' of the Alcoran" and could chant it in its original J metre.


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