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Jon Silpayamanant โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์ | Mae Mai Profile picture
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May 30, 2021 • 13 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
Adventures in compiling bibliographies: Arabic #MusicTheory edition. PART IX Central Asia.

Seeing the Kazkh Music History Survey, it wasn't surprising to find it founded on Arabic Music rather than WAM ones.

Reading this now.
doi.org/10.1080/106119…

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I've been doing work and exploring music from that region since 2009 with musician and dance culture bearers, but I've never been as familiar with the theoretical (and historical) foundations of most of those traditions as I am with MENAT regions.

The 20th cent. and (obviously) Medieval Arabic periods I'm familiar with, but the period linking the two, plus early Medieval literatures from those regions, are spotty for me. Looking forward to filling those gaps. So much of the literature is in native languages though.
Updated with this thread.

silpayamanant.wordpress.com/amt-bib-projec…
Side Note: And I really appreciate Petrosyan's Doyra notation (developed in 1952). It's actually pretty intuitive to read for experienced MENAT hand percussionists that also read standard Western notation. I don't even miss the middle line in the staff! Image
It was really only a matter of time before I had to loo at the rich history of Central Asian music ecosystems to see how Arabic Music Theory treatises became one of the foundations of their musics.

And it took me the longest time to find something that referenced Petrosyan's development of the adapted notation. Discovered a couple of 600+ page books on the history of Uzbek music that helped (though one was in Russian and the other was in Uzbek).

The DOI doesn't direct to this, but here's a link to Mamirova Odinahon's "Knowing the History of Makom - Knowledge" discussing 16th/17th c. treatises--a little late for the Arab Music Theory Bib, but necessary for the larger Global Music Theory project.

journals.researchparks.org/index.php/IJIE…Image
"The Development of Central Asian Art Music" - Mansurova Nigoraxon Rustamjonovna

agir.academiascience.org/index.php/agir…Image
"Tales and Fables of the Chang (Harp) in Darvish Ali’s Risalei Musiqi" - Sławomira Żerańska-Kominek
doi.org/10.1353/amu.0.…
"Writing the History of Unwritten Music: On the Treatise of Darwesh ‘Ali Changi (17th Century)" - Sławomira Żerańska-Kominek
doi.org/10.5871/bacad/…
"A Look at the History of Instrumental Performance" - Haydarov Azizbek, Talaboyev Azizjon, Madaminov Siddiqjon, and Mamatov Jalolxon

turkjphysiotherrehabil.org/pub/pdf/321/32…Image

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Jon Silpayamanant โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์ | Mae Mai Profile picture
Feb 15, 2023
While working on the database of Popular Music Schools, I came across a piece with a bio of the child prodigy Cecil Cowles (1893-1968) which stated that:

"In recent years [1920s-1940] Miss Cowles has been active in the field of composition, particularly in Oriental music."
A San Francisco Chronicle piece about Cecil Cowles from 17 June 1923 says: "The other occasion was a recital of her own in which she played her Song Without Words, In a Rickshaw , Chinese Dance and Valse Caprice..."

"Fifty Local Prodigies: 1906-1940"
archive.org/details/fiftyl…
The main thesis of my piece “Orientalism, Perpetually Foreign Musics, and Asian Exclusion” is that that the systematic exclusion of Asian/American musics led to a vacuum filled by racial fantasy works composed and performed by white Americans in both classical and popular musics.
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Jon Silpayamanant โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์ | Mae Mai Profile picture
Jan 18, 2023
Normalize not centering Western Chord labels in Music Theory. In quintal harmony, it'd be a C2; In a quartal one it's a D5/2; not sus chords at all. Parallel seconds (and ninths) are way common in Eastern Orthodox traditions.

reddit.com/r/musictheory/…
"The notations of znamenny polyphony require a special approach to their transcription; but when correctly read the music of the ‘scores’ abounds in harsh sonorities in the form of extended parallel seconds & fifths.”

Brazhnikov, qtd in Swan "Russian Music & its Sources..." p45
“The voices enter at the interval of the second and, within a short period of time, four more vertical intervals of the second appear in a row. In the process, the voices cross.”

Vladislav Uspensky, quoted in Johann von Gardner's "Russian Church Singing" Vol. 2, pg. 316
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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."

content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MNORG…
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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"
northwestairlineshistory.org/wp-content/upl…
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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.
shareok.org/handle/11244/5… Image
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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