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From Rumi to the whirling dervishes : music, poetry, and mysticism in the Ottoman Empire / Walter Feldman.

Author/creator Feldman, Walter author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
Copyright Notice ̐u2022
Descriptionxxiii, 280 pages : illustrations (black and white), music ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Music and performance in Muslim contexts
Music and performance in Muslim contexts. ^A1439248
Contents Preface -- Part I : History and culture of the Melevi dervishes. Introduction : Continuities and ruptures in the Mevlevi tradition ; Defining the mystical music of the Mevlevi dervishes ; The Mevlevi phenomenon ; Development and cultural affinities of the Mevlevi Ayin ; The ney in Mevlevi music ; The Mevlevi Neyzen as an ideal representation of Ottoman culture -- Part II : Music of the Mevlevis. The position of music within the Mevleviye ; The musical structure of the Ayin ; Music, poetry, and composition in the Ayin ; The Sema'i in the Third Selam and the Son Y̐uur̐uuk Sema'i: nucleus of the antecendent Sam̐ua'? -- Postlude : Music, poetry, and mysticism in the Ottomon Empire.
Bibliography noteContains biblographic references (pages 248-261) and index.
Issued in other formebook version : 9781474491877
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre/formHistory.
ISBN9781474491853
ISBN1474491855 (hardcover)

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