Ibn Zaylā

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Ibn Zaylā

Islamic author

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Islamic arts
The Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties: classical Islamic music
…ibn Qurrah, and Avicenna’s pupil Ibn Zaylā. The last important theorist to emerge during the Abbasid period was Ṣafī al-Dīn, who codified the elements of the modal practice as it was then known into a highly sophisticated system. His achievement became the chief model for subsequent generations. In the numerous…
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…ibn Qurrah, and Avicenna’s pupil Ibn Zaylā. The last important theorist to emerge during the Abbasid period was Ṣafī al-Dīn, who codified the elements of the modal practice as it was then known into a highly sophisticated system. His achievement became the chief model for subsequent generations. In the numerous…
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