Open Access Journal: NEMO-Online Near-Eastern Musicology Online

 [First posted in AWOL 29 August 2016, updated 26 June 2018]

NEMO-Online: Near-Eastern Musicology Online

ISSN: 2397-9887 (Online)

ISSN: 2265-6561 (Print)

ICONEA, CERMAA and PLM are research groups based in London ‎–‎ UK (ICONEA ), in Beirut ‎–‎ Lebanon (CERMAA ) and in Paris ‎–‎ France (PLM).

• ICONEA (International Conference of Near-Eastern Archaeomusicology) specialises in Near and Middle-eastern archaeomusicology.
• CERMAA (CEntre de Recherches sur les Musiques Arabes et Apparentées) is dedicated to research on maqām music and modality.
• PLM (Patrimoines et Langages Musicaux) is a professional research group of musicologists, most of them being also musicians, working at Sorbonne Université in the realm of history of music, ethnomusicology, music analysis and/or theory of music.

In 2011, ICONEA and CERMAA merged and launched a new periodical of Near and Middle-Eastern music research, in the widest sense of the term, under the name of  NEMO-Online (Near-Eastern Musicology 

Articles

 

(click on the title of each article for the corresponding pdf version / cliquer sur les titres des articles pour télécharger les pdf).

NEMO-Online Vol. 1 No. 1 Reissue 2016/12 : (all pdf articles in this volume are bookmarked for titles and subtitles / tous les articles au format pdf de ce volume contiennent des marque-pages correspondant aux titres et sous-titres)

Editor’s letter / Éditorial / كلمة الناشرين : Questioning Modality / La modalité en question /  بخصوص المقامية
Contents / contenu / ملخّص :

• Erik Marchand : “Une musique modale de tradition populaire en Occident – Tribune”, NEMO-Online11 |2012-11| p. 5–10.

• François Picard : “Back to modality. Musical Modes Revisited”, NEMO-Online11 |2012-11| p. 11–18.

• Markos Skoulios : “Modern theory and notation of Byzantine chanting tradition – A Near Eastern musicological perspective”, NEMO-Online11 |2012-11| p. 19–38.

• Jacob Olley : “Modal diversity in early Ottoman music – The case of makâm Sabâ”, NEMO-Online11 |2012-11| p. 39–54.

• Rosy Azar Beyhom : “La modalité écrite. Un exemple avec Mīkhāʾīl Mashāqa au XIX^e siècle”, NEMO-Online11 |2012-11| p. 55–66.

• Amine Beyhom : “Kashf al-Asrār Ꜥan Karkarat al-Aḥbār fī Taʾwīl al-Adwārكشف الأسرار عن كركرةِ الأحبار في تأويل الأدوار”, NEMO-Online11 |2012-11| p. 67–88.

• Richard Dumbrill : “Modus Vivendi”, NEMO-Online11 |2012-11| p. 89–116.

NEMO-Online Vol. 2 Nos. 2&3 Reissue 2016/12 : (all pdf articles in this volume are bookmarked for titles, subtitles and figures / tous les articles au format pdf de ce volume contiennent des marque-pages correspondant aux titres, sous-titres et figures)

Editor’s letter / Éditorial / كلمة الناشرين : Modality and Musical Myths / Modalité et mythes musicaux /  المقامية والخرافات الموسيقية

Contents / contenu / ملخّص :

• NEMO-Online No. / n^o 2 : Modality in all its forms / La modalité dans tous ses états / المقامية في مختلف أشكالها
  
  • Amine Beyhom : “Un lexique de la modalité,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 2 2 |2013-11| p. 5–24.
  • Margo Schulter : “Systematist Buzurg and its Relatives: Notes on a Zalzalian Modal Genre‎,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 2 2 |2013-11| p. 25–49.
  • Richard Dumbrill : “Mesopotamian Sonic Proto-Theory,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 2 2 |2013-11| p. 51–61.

• NEMO-Online No. / n^o 3 : Facts and Fiction in Near-Eastern music / Légendes et vérités dans les musiques du Proche-Orient / حقائق وخرافات في موسيقى الشرق الأدنى
  
  • Sandra Fleury : “Le traitement de la musique dans l’iconographie processionnelle du sacrifice grec : entre la thusia et le sacrifice humain,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 2 3 |2014-11| p. 63–74.
  • Richard Dumbrill : “The myth of the ‘zither’ on ‎the Nimrud Pyxis – and ‎others,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 2 3 |2014-11| p. 75–85.
  • Amine Beyhom : “Dossier : Influence des théories ‎européanisées du xix^e siècle sur la ‎notation et la pratique des modes ‎de la musique arabe et d’autres ‎musiques, à travers la mise en ‎exergue du mythe du genre ḥijāz ‎semi-tonal,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 2 3 |2014-11| p. 87–177.
    • Power Point show for the dossier (59 MB)
  • Rosy Azar Beyhom : “A musical tradition for the 22^nd century : A report on a cultural Lebanese initiative‎,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 2 3 |2014-11| p. 179–181.

NEMO-Online Vol. 3 : (all pdf articles in this volume are bookmarked for titles, subtitles and figures / tous les articles au format pdf de ce volume contiennent des marque-pages correspondant aux titres, sous-titres et figures)

Editor’s letter / Éditorial / كلمة الناشرين : Instrumental facture & Evolution of musicology and ethnomusicology / Facture instrumentale & Évolution de la musicologie et de l’ethnomusicologie /  صناعة الآلات وتطوّر علم الموسيقولوجيا والإتنوموسيقولوجيا (updated)

NEMO-Online No. 4 contents / contenu / ملخّص : Instrumental facture from its sources in the Ancient Near East to modern times / La facture instrumentale au Moyen-Orient, des origines à nos jours / صناعة الآلات الموسيقية في الشرق الأوسط، من البدايات وحتى يومنا هذا

• Jean During : “The Baluchi benju, a new traditional instrument,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 3 4 |2015-11| p. 5–12. (updated)
  • Music excerpt.

• Rachid Cherif : “La musique classique tunisienne et la dimension de l’authenticité,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 3 4 |2015-11| p. 13–28. (updated)
  • Music excerpt 1 (Initial excerpt from / Extrait initial de Khatm binaire de nubat al-asbahan).
  • Music excerpt 2 (Initial excerpt from / Extrait initial de Khatm binaire de nubat al-asbahan).
  • Music excerpt 3 (Khatm ternaire de nubat raml al-maya).
  • Music excerpt 4 (Khatm ternaire de nubat raml al-maya).

NEMO-Online No. 5 contents / contenu / ملخّص : Musicology and Ethnomusicology: evolutions and problems / Musicologies et Ethnomusicologies : évolutions et problèmes / الموسيقولوجيا والإتنوموسيقولوجيا، التطوّر والمشاكل

• Bruno de Florence : “Essay: General Remarks on ‘Cultural Appropriation’,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 3 5 |2016-11| p. 29–31.

• Amine Zouari : “البنيّة الإيقَـاعيّة في الإنشَاد الصّوفي: جَدليّة التأثِير والـتَّأثُّر,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 3 5 |2016-11| p. 33–45.
  • Music excerpt 1 (Khif el Tira).
  • Music excerpt 2 (Rhythm No. 1 / Rythme n°1).
  • Music excerpt 3 (Rhythm No. 2 / Rythme n°2).
  • Music excerpt 4 (Rhythm No. 3 / Rythme n°3).
  • Music excerpt 5 (Rhythm No. 4 / Rythme n°4).
  • Music excerpt 6 (Rhythm No. 5 / Rythme n°5).
  • Music excerpt 7 (Rhythm No. 6 / Rythme n°6).

• Adeline Poussin : “‎Nouveaux champs de l’ethnomusicologie : une nouvelle approche des musiques occidentales ne relevant pas de la ‘tradition populaire’,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 3 5 |2016-11| p. 47–52.

• Amine Beyhom : “Dossier: Hellenism as an Analytical tool for Occicentrism (in musicology),” Near Eastern Musicology Online 3 5 |2016-11| p. 53–275. (V2)
  • Power Point show for the dossier (210MB – V2).

NEMO-Online No. 6 (Vol. 4)

• Amine Beyhom : “A Hypothesis for the Elaboration of Heptatonic Scales,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 4 6 |2017-05| p. 5–90.
  • Power Point Show including audio examples for Scales with limited transposition
  • Appendix I: Complete database – quarter-tone model with reduced alphabet of intervals
  • Appendix J: Generation of systems with the extended alphabet from 2 to 24 quarter-tones
  • Appendix K: Generation of systems with 17^ths of the octave, full alphabet

• Richard Dumbrill : “The Truth about Babylonian Music,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 4 6 |2017-08| p. 91–121.
  • Mixed score (Tonogram reproduction of the intonations in parallel with the score) of Hurrian song H6 (Richard Dumbrill-Amine Beyhom-Rosy Azar Beyhom) – pdf
  • Midi reproduction of Hurrian song H6 including intonations (Richard Dumbrill-Amine Beyhom-Rosy Azar Beyhom) – mp3
  • Recording of Hurrian song H6 with singer Lara Jokhadar (Richard Dumbrill-Amine Beyhom-Rosy Azar Beyhom) – mp3

• Bruno Deschênes : “A preliminary approach to the analysis of honkyoku, the solo repertoire of the Japanese shakuhachi,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 4 6 |2017-08| p. 123–143.
  • Daiwa gaku (First analyzed song – By Bruno Deschênes) – mp3
  • Shika no tone (Second analyzed song – By the Ensemble Matsu Také with Michel Zenchiku Dubeau) – mp3

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Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae

Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae

University of Copenhagen, Saxo Institute, Dept. of Greek and Latin

Detail of the so-called 'Chartres fragment' with musical notation, beginning of the sticheron Ἡ σοφία τοῦ Θεοῦ. Fourth plagal mode. Image of the whole piece (232Kb).

The editorial program of MMB began in 1935 under the direction of Carsten Høeg. Since then, the University of Copenhagen has housed continuous research activities in the field of Byzantine chant. MMB is published under the auspices of Union Académique Internationale and has been suppoarted by the Carlsberg Foundation.

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