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Asian Music History - Ethnomusicology

If you have any test reviews, homeworks, guides, anything school related that you think can be posted on this website, reach out to me at makingschooleasier@gmail.com   Contact With Assimilated Cultures  - early centuries of Islam - growth of Cosmopolitan cultural confess in Syria under the Umayyads (661-750) and in Iraq under the Abbasids (750-909) - Ethnic blending= Arabian Music + Syria, Mesopotamia, Byzantium, and Persia music= New Arab Music - old elements that remained - singing of poetical lyric in Arabic -new elements - performance techniques, new aspects of information and new musical instruments Quynat - female slave singers prevalent during early decades 2nd Process- Introduction of scholar of the Islamic world to ancient greek treaties - 9th century  - provided musical nomenclature, most of which was indicated by the names of the singers and the employed when playing the 'ud. -Abu Nasr  Al-Farabi- wrote the the grand treatise on music which discusses s