Making the Great Book of Songs
Author | : Hilary Kilpatrick |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781135787936 |
ISBN-13 | : 113578793X |
Rating | : 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Download or read book Making the Great Book of Songs written by Hilary Kilpatrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematic literary study of one of the masterpieces of classical Arabic literature, the fourth/tenth century Kitâb al-aghânî (The Book of Songs) by Abû I-Faraj al-Isbahânî. Until now the twenty-four volume Book of Songs has been regarded as a rather chaotic but priceless mine of information about classical Arabic music, literature and culture. This book approaches it as a work of literature in its own right, with its own internal logic and coherence. The study also consistently integrates the musical component into the analysis and proposes a reading of the work in which individual anecdotes and poems are related to the wider context, enhancing their meaning.