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Jon Silpayamanant โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์ | Mae Mai Profile picture
@Silpayamanant
Sep 2, 2020 • 10 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
So geeking out about getting a copy of this. Finding editions of Al-Kindi's 9th cent. Arabic Music Theory treatises is...annoying...was thrilled to find this. Doubly geeking as it's by Nicholas Rescher, a philosopher/logician whose works (some) I've read!
upittpress.org/books/97808229… Image
Still brainstorming this series-one of the reasons I ordered a copy of the Al-Kindi bibliography. Interestingly, I’m coming across pieces bemoaning the lack of acknowledgement early Arabic Music Theorists influence on Medieval Western Music Theory has been essentially erased.
Which is par for the course in the Western Art Music ecosystem. Erasure of the Music Theory of Islamic Empires was necessary to elevate the status of WAM and keep it as the "greatest musical achievement of mankind."
Progress on the Arabic #MusicTheory Bibliography so far.

Scored a used library copy of this on ebay for less than a tenth of the listed price!

"The Theory of Music in Arabic Writings (c. 900-1900)" Amnon Shiloah (ed.) G. Henle Verlag, 512 p.

henle.de/us/detail/?Tit…
Was just noticing that in 2013 I'd set up, and started a separate wordpress site specifically geared to Arabic and Ottoman Turkish #MusicTheory and rep. I even started digitizing my handwritten glossary I had one of my many notebooks for music from that part of the world. 🤣 Image
I'm sure I ahve a Thai and Southeast Asian #MusicTheory and rep. blog set up somewhere. Maybe one of these days I'll find it too! :P
Ziryab was also described as Black. There were actually a fair number of people involved in the history of Arabic #MusicTheory who were Black or mixed race. Makes sense since the Arabic Empires ranged over parts of African in addition to Europe and Asia!

Finally got a copy of The Consort with Carl Cowl's English translation of Al-Kindi's 'Risāla fi hubr ta’lif al-alhan' (On the composition of melodies).

Probably the oldest extant Arabic #MusicTheory work (he died ca. 870 CE) that we have, though there are plenty earlier! Image
Copy of the Al-Kindi annotated bibliography is in! A little dated - published in 1964 so wouldn’t even include the Carl Cowl’s translation mentioned above. But pretty comprehensive of pre ‘64 editions of Al-Kindi’s #MusicTheory works to them. Image

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Jon Silpayamanant โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์ | Mae Mai Profile picture
Jan 13, 2023
Apparently there were organs on planes.

"An organ was installed on a Northwest Stratocruiser in the 1950s through an arrangement with local musician Swanee Swanson. The organists received free flights to New York and other East Coast destinations."

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Page 43 of "Northwest Airlines: The First Eighty Years"

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"Anne Kerr (center) explained the location of the organ installed on one of the Stratocruisers to Dave and Wendy McCarthy."

Page 5 of "REFLECTIONS: The Newsletter of the NWA History Centre"
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Jon Silpayamanant โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์ | Mae Mai Profile picture
Aug 5, 2022
Welsh Harp tablature from the *Robert ap Huw manuscript* (1613). The manuscript is the oldest extant source of primarily Late Medieval eisteddfod repertory that dates to 1340-1500 and was compiled by Robert ap Huw (c.1580-1665).

pbm.com/~lindahl/ap_hu…
Short segment on the *Robert ap Huw manuscript* in Rhodri McDonagh's wonderful "Welsh Trad Music | A Beginner's Guide" video (cued up to that segment below). The whole vid is worth a watch and is only 24 minutes.

Bangor University's "Music of the Robert ap Huw Manuscript" page with other resources for Cerdd Dant and other British Isles harp traditions.

bangor.ac.uk/music-and-medi…
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Jon Silpayamanant โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์ | Mae Mai Profile picture
Aug 3, 2022
One of the things I love about Georgian Harmony is that it's based on what's essentially close to a functionally 7TET/EDO collection of pitches. Many global harmonic systems are built on different tuning systems than those in what's typically referred to as Western harmony.
The above image from Malkhaz Erkvanidze's "On Georgian Scale System" pg. 181

citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/downlo…
See also:
"Tonal Organization of the Erkomaishvili Dataset: Pitches, Scales, Melodies and Harmonies"

publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/inde…
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Jon Silpayamanant โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์ | Mae Mai Profile picture
Aug 3, 2022
Just looking the bi/polymusical course offerings at Thai Universities (sample below) in a Dissertation from 1998.

"Undergraduate Piano Pedagogy Course Offerings in Thai Universities" Chindarat Charoenwongse. University of Oklahoma.
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Bi/polymusical education ecosystems are far more common outside of Europe and North America.

H/T to @FergusonGuitar for this.

"Bi-musicality in modern Japanese culture"
Alison Tokita
doi.org/10.1177%2F1367…
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Jon Silpayamanant โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์ | Mae Mai Profile picture
Aug 2, 2022
Latest update to the <Solo Keyboard Repertoire - Southeast Asian Composers> resource. Added about another 50 or so pieces by (primarily) Vietnamese/Vietnamese diasporan composers.

I'm barely scratching the surface of solo keyboard rep here, folks.
doi.org/10.6084/m9.fig…
I think it's easy to underestimate the size and diversity of SE Asia (hence why I added a new second paragraph to the doc). For example, Indonesia alone has a population of nearly 275 million: the 4th most populous country in the World. About 231 million Indonesians are Muslim. Image
And just hearing all those different composers that've created wonderfully expressive uses of the piano for native tunes, or how they've incorporated that into their compositional style or, in some cases, incorporated the piano into SEA folk and art musics, is just so refreshing!
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Jon Silpayamanant โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์ | Mae Mai Profile picture
May 12, 2022
Finally getting a chance to read this and the intro piece "American Music and Racial Fantasy, Past and Present" is so excellent & lays out the backdrop for what I call the <Perpetually Foreign Music> idea & how Raceface Minstrelsy shapes current Anglo/American popular musics.
This, especially: "Dismantling the Black-white binary requires us to locate our discussion of music and race in the period prior to 1900" (pg. 573) though I'd argue we should extend this into discussion of race/music today & how the Black-white binaries create other...
...exclusions. Especially as this carries over into music education & how this "In every part of the globe that was touched by minstrelsy, fantasies served to advance white male status" plays into ehtno-nationalist views of what counts as "American Music."
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