Hellenism as an Analytical tool for Occicentrism (in Musicology)

Amine Beyhom (1)

1 CERMAA - Centre de Recherche sur les Musiques Arabes et Apparentées

Working on Byzantine chant was an eye-opener which explained the litany of misunderstandings, contradictions, obvious errors and allegations made in bad faith in maqām literature, some of which I have already mentioned in previous publications and papers. What remained inexplicable for me, for over two decades, was the reason why (and how) all of these errors could be made in the first place, in such a domain that is still today considered as the “science” of music: the answer to this question is the main object of this dossier.

Mots clés: tetrachordal construction; Music history; Orientalism; Byzantinism; Music perception; Pitch perception; Interval perception; Re-Orientalism; Acoustic resonance; Hellenism; Occicentrism; Music; Musicology; Ancient Greek Music; Arabian music; maqām; Byzantine chant; Scale theories; Cycle of fifths

Domaines: Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène

Amine Beyhom. Hellenism as an Analytical tool for Occicentrism (in Musicology). NEMO-Online, 2016, 3 (5), pp.53-273. ⟨hal-01447512v1⟩