Name the basic periods of music history of the Arab World and give a significant musical event associated with each period. (There may some variation in the eras listed by students and exemplifying musical events.)
What will be an ideal response?
- Early history from the 7th and 8th centuries where the Qur'an became essential for Muslim ritual and contained guidance on everyday matters including music.
- Medieval Mesopotamia (8th – 13th centuries) - Musical life in medieval Baghdad was described through the writings of Al-Isbahani.
- Ottoman Empire (1326 – 1918) and the colonial era – adoption of Western musical ideas including modern instruments
- Study of Arab music persisted into the twentieth century with, for example, the assembling of Arab and European music scholars in the Congress of Arab Music in 1932.
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