Month: March 2021

(Reminder and deadline extension) NUMÉRO SPÉCIAL DE / NEMO ONLINE / SPECIAL ISSUE

NEMO-Online would like to inform potential authors for the NEMO-Online Special Issue “In Memoriam Katy Romanou” (below) that the deadline for submitting propositions of texts is extended till the end of March 2021. / NEMO-Online souhaite informer les auteurs potentiels d’hommages et d’articles pour le numéro spécial “In Memoriam Katy Romanou” (description en fin d’annonce) que la date limite de proposition de textes est étendue jusqu’à fin Mars 2021.

The Editors / Les éditeurs

The call for papers of the special issue is available at / l’appel à communication du numéro spécial est accessible à / http://nemo-online.org/archives/1846.

NEMO-Online Vol. 5 Nos 8&9 available / Mise en ligne et publication de NEMO-Online Vol. 5 n°8&9

NEMO-Online Vol. 5 Nos. 8&9 is now available for downloading and as hardcover (links below) / Le Vol. 5 nos 8&9 de NEMO-Online est disponible pour téléchargement et en version cartonnée imprimée (liens ci-dessous).

All pdf articles in theses volumes are available individually at http://nemo-online.org/articles and bookmarked for titles, subtitles and figures / tous les articles au format pdf de ces volumes sont téléchargeables individuellement à http://nemo-online.org/articles et contiennent des marque-pages correspondant aux titres, sous-titres et figures.

NEMO-Online Vol. 5

Editor’s letter / Éditorial / كلمة الناشرين p. i-xii

NEMO-Online No. 8 (Vol. 5)

  • Amine Beyhom: “The Lost Art of Maqām – With four video analyses of performances by Evelyne Daoud, Neyzen Tewfik, Hamdi Makhlouf, and by ʿAlī Maḥmūd and Sāmī a-sh-Shawwā,” Near-Eastern Musicology Online 5 8 |2019-11| p. 5–64.
    • Accompanying material:
      • One video analysis of Yā Nasīm a-ṣ-Ṣabā performed by ʿAlī Maḥmūd and violinist Sāmī a-sh-Shawwā with an additional third-tempo version (see also below)
      • Three previously published video analyses:
        • Video analysis of “Akh tagorye hʾashyrie” (Syriac Orthodox Chant) sung by Evelyne Daoud
        • Video analysis of an improvisation for the ʿūd played in maqām Ṣabā by Hamdi Makhlouf
        • Video analysis in 3D of a Huseynî Taksim performed by Neyzen Tevfik
      • Slide-projection based video explaining heterophony through the use of audio editing and mixing tools with four extracts from songs
  • Nemo-Online No. 8 proposes a first set of Books and CD reviews. Two books and one CD are reviewed:
    • Avra Pieridou Skoutella : Small musical worlds in the Mediterranean: ethnicity, globalization and Greek Cypriot children’s musical identities, Ashgate |Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT, 2015|, reviewed by Rosy and Amine Beyhom, Near-Eastern Musicology Online 5 8 |2019-11| p. 65–66.
    • Jean-François Goudesenne : Émergence du chant grégorien : les strates de la branche Neustro-insulaire (687-930) – Tome I. Étude historique et philologique, Tome II. Annexes, planches et édition, MŪSAM (MUSICALIA ANTIQUITATIS & MEDII AEVI) 2 vols., Brepols |Turnhout (Belgique), 2018|, reviewed by Rosy and Amine Beyhom, Near-Eastern Musicology Online 5 8 |2019-11| p. 66–69.
    • CD recorded by Melpo Merlier : ‘and let us sing in praise’ – Byzantine Hymns recorded in 1930 by Melpo Merlier, EDO (HERE) |Athens and Volos (Greece), March 2000|, reviewed by Rosy and Amine Beyhom, Near-Eastern Musicology Online 5 8 |2019-11| p. 69–71.

NEMO-Online No. 9 (Vol. 5)

  • Ozan Yarman: “Search for an Optimal Tonal-System for an Authentic Turkish Soundscape,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 5 9 |2020-11| p. 73–111.
    • Additional material: Zip file containing relevant MS Excel files
  • Amine Beyhom: “Dossier: Was the Early Arabian ʿūd ‘fretted’?,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 5 9 |2020-11| p. 113–196.
    • Additional material:
      • Video no. 1 (YouTube publication) entitled Fretting of the ʿūd according to (al-) Kindī,‎ ‎ ‎and showing the stringing and positioning of the frets ‎as explained by (al-) Kindī, for both a “Harmonic” ‎and a Pythagorean tunings;
      • Video no. 2 (YouTube publication) entitled Fretting of the ʿūd according to Ibn a-ṭ-Ṭaḥḥān and showing the same procedure but with one set of strings described by (ibn a-ṭ-) Ṭaḥḥān.

Vol. 5 Nos. 8&9 (pdf).

Vol. 5 Nos. 8&9 (hardcover/version papier).

Previous volumes / Volumes précédents / الأعداد السابقة /

Note: we use at NEMO-Online the CharisSIL font / nous utilisons à NEMO-Online la police CharisSIL / http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/CharisSIL-4.110.zip / also available at / également téléchargeable à / http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/download_win.html.

New article by Amine Beyhom (Nemo-Online Vol. 5 No. 9-2): “Dossier: Was the Early Arabian ʿūd ‘fretted’?”

English

NEMO-Online is delighted to announce the publication of Amine Beyhom’s new Dossier entitled: “Was the Early Arabian ʿūd ‘fretted’”. In this dossier, Amine Beyhom follows his thoughts about musicological Orientalism and dissects what he considers as a fabrication of orientalist musicology, the ‘fretting’ of the Arabian ʿūd at the dawn of Islam.

Amine Beyhom: “Dossier: Was the Early Arabian ʿūd ‘fretted’?,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 5 9 |2020-11| p. 113–196.

Additional material:

  • Video no. 1 (YouTube publication) entitled Fretting of the ʿūd according to (al-) Kindī,‎ ‎ ‎and showing the stringing and positioning of the frets ‎as explained by (al-) Kindī, for both a “Harmonic” ‎and a Pythagorean tunings;
  • Video no. 2 (YouTube publication) entitled Fretting of the ʿūd according to Ibn a-ṭ-Ṭaḥḥān and showing the same procedure but with one set of strings described by (ibn a-ṭ-) Ṭaḥḥān.

Français

Nemo-Online a le plaisir d’annoncer la publication du dossier “Was the Early Arabian ʿūd ‘fretted’” dans lequel l’auteur poursuit sa réflexion au sujet de l’Orientalisme musicologique, et dissèque un des mythes majeurs de la musicologie orientaliste, le “frettage” duʿūd à l’aube de l’Islam.

Amine Beyhom: “Dossier: Was the Early Arabian ʿūd ‘fretted’?,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 5 9 |2020-11| p. 113–196.

Matériau additionnel:

  • Vidéo no. 1 (publication YouTube) nommée Fretting of the ʿūd according to (al-) Kindī,‎ ‎et montrant le montage des cordes ainsi que le positionnement des frettes en suivant les indications de (al-) Kindī, pour un maillage “Harmonique” ou un maillage Pythagoricien;
  • Vidéo no. 2 (publication YouTube) nommée Fretting of the ʿūd according to Ibn a-ṭ-Ṭaḥḥān et montrant la même procédure mais avec le jeu de cordes décrit par (ibn a-ṭ-) Ṭaḥḥān.

New article by Ozan Yarman (Nemo-Online Vol. 5 No. 9-1): “Search for an Optimal Tonal-‎System for an Authentic ‎Turkish Soundscape”

English

[French version below]

(Note: the link to the article is for the updated 2020/11/08 version)

NEMO-Online is delighted to announce the publication of Ozan Yarman’s new article entitled: “Search for an Optimal Tonal-System for an Authentic Turkish Soundscape: Weighing several theoretical models on ‎Makam music against pitch-histograms”.

This article has been written in the best spirit of quantitative statistical works on the maqām, it borrows from the results of a previous paper written in collaboration by the author in 2009 in order to achieve better readings about temperament – notably for the instrument qānūn – so as to reproduce with greater accuracy, a maximum amount of pitches of the Turkish scale, in relation to each maqām of Turkish music.

While redacted in the author’s characteristic style, it unfolds significant speculations about a specific quantitative musicology while insisting on the qualitative differences between musicians and maqām of a similar tradition.

Ozan Yarman: “Search for an Optimal Tonal-System for an Authentic Turkish Soundscape,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 5 9 |2020-11| p. 73–111.

  • Additional material: Zip file containing relevant MS Excel files

Français

(Note: le lien ci-dessous donne accès à l’article dans sa version mise à jour au 2020/11/08)

Nous avons le plaisir à NEMO-Online de publier ce nouvel article d’Ozan Yarman intitulé: “Search for an Optimal Tonal-System for an Authentic Turkish Soundscape: Weighing several theoretical models on ‎Makam music against pitch-histograms”.

Composé dans la veine des meilleurs études en statistique quantitative du maqām, cet article reprend les résultats d’un précédent article co-écrit par l’auteur en 2009 pour essayer de mieux cerner le meilleur tempérament – notamment pour l’instrument qānūn – à même de reproduire au plus près un maximum de degrés de l’échelle de la musique turque, rapportés à chaque maqām de cette musique.

Rédigé dans le style caractéristique de l’auteur, il déroule les spéculations vertigineuses d’une certaine musicologie quantitative, tout en insistant sur les différences qualitatives entre musiciens et maqām d’une même tradition.

Ozan Yarman: “Search for an Optimal Tonal-System for an Authentic Turkish Soundscape,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 5 9 |2020-11| p. 73–111.

  • Matériau additionel: Fichier .zip contenant des fichiers MS Excel relevant de l’étude statistique