Reading list
Reading List
These are the books and papers behind Between Frets. The site is a best-effort work in progress, and this list is here so you can look the works up on your own and judge for yourself.
Persian modal music
- Jean During, Musique et mystique dans les traditions de l’Iran, 1989.
- Jean During, Zia Mirabdolbaghi and Dariush Safvat, The Art of Persian Music, 1991.
- Hormoz Farhat, The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music, 1990.
- Lloyd Clifton Miller, Music and Song in Persia: The Art of Āvāz, 1999.
- Bruno Nettl, The Radif of Persian Music: Studies of Structure and Cultural Context, 1987.
- Dariush Talai, A New Approach to the Theory of Persian Art Music: The Radif and the Modal System, 1993.
- Ali-Naqi Vaziri, Dastur-e Tar, 1922 or 1923.
- Ella Zonis, Classical Persian Music: An Introduction, 1973.
Turkish makam
- Can Akkoç, Non-Deterministic Scales Used in Traditional Turkish Music, 2002.
- Murat Aydemir, Turkish Music Makam Guide, 2010.
- Barış Bozkurt, An Automatic Pitch Analysis Method for Turkish Maqam Music, 2008.
- Barış Bozkurt, Ozan Yarman, M. Kemal Karaosmanoğlu and Can Akkoç, Weighing Diverse Theoretical Models on Turkish Maqam Music Against Pitch Measurements: A Comparison of Peaks Automatically Derived from Frequency Histograms with Proposed Scale Tones, 2009.
- Eric Bernard Ederer, The Cümbüş as Instrument of “the Other” in Modern Turkey, 2007.
- Eric Bernard Ederer, The Theory and Praxis of Makam in Classical Turkish Music 1910-2010, 2011.
- Ekrem Karadeniz, Türk Mûsîkîsinin Nazariye ve Esasları, about 1983.
- İsmail Hakkı Özkan, Türk Musikisi Nazariyatı ve Usulleri, 1984.
- Eugenia Popescu-Judetz, Meanings in Turkish Musical Culture, 1996.
- Sonia Tamar Seeman, Sounding Roman: Representation and Performing Identity in Western Turkey, 2019.
- Karl L. Signell, Makam: Modal Practice in Turkish Art Music, 1977.
- Martin Stokes, The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey, 1992.
- Martin Stokes, The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music, 2010.
- Mutlu Torun, Ud Metodu “Gelenekle Geleceğe”, 1993.
- Yalçın Tura, Türk Mûsıkîsinin Mes’eleleri, 1988.
- Ozan Yarman, 79-Tone Tuning & Theory for Turkish Maqam Music, 2008.
- Baha Yetkin, Turkish Oud Method Vol. 1, 2022.
- Rauf Yekta Bey, La musique turque, in Encyclopédie de la musique, 1922.
Ottoman history
- Cem Behar, Aşk Olmayınca Meşk Olmaz: Geleneksel Osmanlı/Türk Müziğinde Öğretim ve İntikal, 1998.
- Dimitrie Cantemir, Kitâb-ı İlmü’l-Mûsîkî, about 1700 to 1710.
- Walter Feldman, The Musical “Renaissance” of Late Seventeenth Century Ottoman Turkey, 2015.
- Walter Feldman, From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes: Music, Poetry, and Mysticism in the Ottoman Empire, 2022.
- Walter Feldman, Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire, 2024.
- Eugenia Popescu-Judetz, Prince Dimitrie Cantemir: Theorist and Composer of Turkish Music, 1999.
Arabic maqam
- Johnny Farraj and Sami Abu Shumays, Inside Arabic Music: Arabic Maqam Performance and Theory in the 20th Century, 2019.
- Scott Marcus, The Eastern Arab System of Melodic Modes in Theory and Practice: A Case Study of Maqām Bayātī, 2001 or 2002.
- Ali Jihad Racy, Making Music in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab, 2003.
- Habib Hassan Touma, The Music of the Arabs, 1996.
- Owen Wright, The Modal System of Arab and Persian Music, A.D. 1250-1300, 1978.
Acoustics
- Arthur H. Benade, Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics, 1990.
- Edward M. Burns and W. Dixon Ward, Categorical Perception — Phenomenon or Epiphenomenon: Evidence from Experiments in the Perception of Melodic Musical Intervals, 1978.
- Neville H. Fletcher and Thomas D. Rossing, The Physics of Musical Instruments, 1998.
- Hermann Helmholtz, On the Sensations of Tone, 1885.
- Thomas D. Rossing, F. Richard Moore and Paul A. Wheeler, The Science of Sound, 2002.
Neighbouring traditions
- Rachel Harris, The Making of a Musical Canon in Chinese Central Asia: The Uyghur Twelve Muqam, 2008.
- N. A. Jairazbhoy, The Rags of North Indian Music: Their Structure and Evolution, 1971.
- Theodore Levin, The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York), 1996.