Contents

 

The Content of "Al-Risâlah al-Sharafiyyah fi al-Nisab Al-Ta'lifiyyah"

Dr. Fazli Arslan
   
start: 13 december 2006, up-date: 13 december 2006
 

Picture on cover (img0000000624):

Davide Rebuffa has kindly supplied the following information:

This picture of the 'ud is from the book of Safi al Din 'Abd al-Mu'min b. Fakr al-Urmawi known as "Kitab al-adwar", it was written in 1333-34. It is an important arab treatise on musical theory (he also wrote onother one) and was written while Safi ad-Din was working in the library of the Caliph al-Mustassim.

 
Cover
Introduction
I. First Discourse of al-Sharafiyyah
1. Content of the first discourse
II. Second Discourse of al-Sharafiyyah (The Ratios of Numbers to Each Other, Making Up of Intervals, The Ratio of The Intervals Made Up, The Levels and Names of Consonance and Dissonance)
1. The Ratio Between the Numbers
2. The Names of the Intervals
3. The Parts of Intervals
4. Consonant and Dissonant Intervals
III. The Third Discourse of al-Sharafiyyah (The Addition, Division, Subtraction of the Intervals and the Formation of the Kinds)
1. The Addition of The Intervals
2. The Division of the Intervals
3.The Subtraction of The Intervals From Each Other
4.The Arrangement of The Intervals Within Tetrachord and Constituting The Kinds
5.The Consonant and Dissonant of The Kinds
IV.The Fourth Discourse of al-Sharafiyyah (The Arrangement of the Kinds in Big Layers)
1. The Formation of Two Octaves with Tetrachords and Tanînî Intervals
2. The Arrangement of Tetrachords in One Octave With The Intervals at Kinds
3. The Arrangement of Tetrachords in Two Octaves With The Intervals at Kinds
4. Common Notes in The Scales
5. The Accordatura of Stringed Instruments and Ûd
6. Determining 17 Notes on The Ûd/The Division of The Frets
7. The Scales of Maqams
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes