Walter Feldman (Independent scholar and Corpus Musica board member

Broschiertes Buch

From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes

Music, Poetry, and Mysticism in the Ottoman Empire

Beschreibung

Walter Feldman traces the historical development of Mevlevi music and the spiritual legacy of Rumi. He brings to light the remarkable musical and mystical aesthetics of the Mevlevi ayin â the instrumental and vocal accompaniment to the sublime ceremony of the â Whirlingâ Dervishes.

Autor

Walter Feldman is a leading scholar of both Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music. His major publications include Klezmer: Music, History and Memory (Oxford, 2016) and Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition, and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire (Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1996). As a lifelong musician, Feldman performs on the Ottoman tanbur and the cimbal--the traditional Klezmer dulcimer. He has held teaching positions at Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and New York University Abu Dhabi and is a board member of the Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae Project of the Wilhelm Westphalian University in Münster, and of the Istanbul Research Institute.

Produktdetails

• Music and Performance in Muslim Contexts
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 158mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9781474491860
• ISBN-10: 1474491863
• Artikelnr.: 67981091