Maqām : Historical Traces and Present Practice in Southern European Music Traditions

This edited volume is the result of the 8th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group Maqām in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which brought together scholars from Germany, Turkey, Tunisia, Serbia, Malaysia, Finland, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In order to open up minds and to widen the horizons of discussions on historical traces and present music practices related to the maqām principle in Southern Europe and neighbouring regions, the general topic of the symposium, namely “Maqām: Historical Traces and Present Practice in South European Music Traditions”, was substructured into three special topics: “Between maqām and mode: the intermediate realms”; “Historical traces of Ottoman music in the Mediterranean Region”; and “Role and revival of religious genres in the Balkans”.The contributions included in this volume offer new insights and knowledge on various aspects of the Ottoman music culture and their stimuli in the Mediterranean region and especially in parts of the Balkans, as well as on general aspects of the maqām principle. Maqam in peripheral cultures / Gisa Jähnichen The concept of şube ("branch") as a tetrachordal classification method in the 15th century Ottoman makam theory and the Enchiriadis theory : a hermeneutic interpretation / Murat Okan Öztürk The makam system as a metatheory for interpreting Bulgarian traditional songs / Gueorgui Harizanov Historical traces of Ottoman music in the Mediterranean Region : the melodic characteristics of Greek rebetika music : a historical study of the dromos and the maqams / Ali Fuat Aydin Improvised instrumental sections on Bosnian commercial recordings : from westernisation to re-orientalisation / Risto Pekka Pennanen Theory of Ottoman music of the modern period / Fikret Karakaya Oriental musical tradition during the period of Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Lana Šehović Paćuka and Fatima Hadžić A Turkish contribution to Algerian musical culture : the Bashraf / Jürgen Elsner Adhan in the tradition of Islamic religious community in Vojvodina / Vesna Ivkov Contemporary maqam practice in the Jewish community of Belgrade : the example of the liturgical hymn Nishmat kol hay / Jasmina Huber From traditional to modern : Ilahy in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Jasmina Talam. This edited volume is the result of the 8th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group Maqam in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which brought together scholars from Germany, Turkey, Tunisia, Serbia, Malaysia, Finland, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In order to open up minds and to widen the horizons of discussions on historical traces and present music practices related to the maqam principle in Southern Europe and neighbouring regions, the general topic of the symposium, namely "Maqam: Historical Traces and Present Practice in South European Music Traditions", was substructured into three special topics: "Between maqam and mode: the intermediate realms"; "Historical traces of Ottoman music in the Mediterranean Region"; and "Role and revival of religious genres in the Balkans".The contributions included in this volume offer new insights and knowledge on various aspects of the Ottoman music culture and their stimuli in the Mediterranean region and especially in parts of the Balkans, as well as on general aspects of the maqam principle.