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Title

Facsimile of LJS 235, Kitāb al-Adwār

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

4-27-2015

Files

Comments

Treatise on the theory of music, including division of frets, ratio of intervals, consonance and dissonance, cycles, rhythmic and melodic modes, and the 5-string oud or lute, with an anonymous commentary.

Keywords

Music--Early works to 1800, Music theory--Arab countries--Early works to 1800 Codices, Commentaries, Diagrams, Treatises, Manuscripts Arabic--16th century, Manuscripts Renaissance

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5056923

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs235.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 235, Kitāb al-Adwār" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 172.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/172