Walter Feldman (Independent scholar and Corpus Musica board member

From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes

Music, Poetry, and Mysticism in the Ottoman Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

Walter Feldman traces the historical development of Mevlevi music and the spiritual legacy of Rumi. He brings to light the remarkable musical and mystical aesthetics of the Mevlevi ayin â the instrumental and vocal accompaniment to the sublime ceremony of the â Whirlingâ Dervishes.

Produktdetails

• Music and Performance in Muslim Contexts
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 158mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9781474491860
• ISBN-10: 1474491863
• Artikelnr.: 67981091

Autorenporträt

Walter Feldman is a leading scholar of both Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music. His major publications include Klezmer: Music, History and Memory (Oxford, 2016) and Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition, and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire (Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1996). As a lifelong musician, Feldman performs on the Ottoman tanbur and the cimbal--the traditional Klezmer dulcimer. He has held teaching positions at Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and New York University Abu Dhabi and is a board member of the Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae Project of the Wilhelm Westphalian University in Münster, and of the Istanbul Research Institute.