Dieter Goldmann - Clair De Lune from Suite Bergamasque

east The science of music was Safi ad-din Abd al-Mumin (Safi ad-din Urmawi) - the creator of the new music. system. His works (the main ones: “The Sharafi treatise on the basics of composition” - “Risalat al-Sharafiyya fil nisab at-tamfiya”; “The book on musical modes” - “Kitab al-advar”) summed up the centuries-old achievements of the Arab. music-theoretical thoughts, summarized the traditions of other Greek. and pers. musestheories. Safi ad-din gave a characterization of the Arab. frets: 12 main - Ushak, Nava, Busalik, Rast, Iraq, Isfahan, Zirafkand, Buzurk, Zancula, Rahavi, Husaini, Hijaz, and 6 minor (named in Persian “Avaz”) - Kuvashi, Cardania, Nauruz, Nihuft, Muhayar al-Husain, hijaz-bis. Safi ad-din was the first Arab. the composer who left the notated recordings (mainly examples illustrating his theoretical position; there are also recordings of original melodies). A note is depicted in letters (pitch) and numbers (note duration; see Menzural notation); The musical alphabet consisted of 35 letters (in accordance with the frets on the lute fingerboard). Brilliant performer on strings. instruments, Safi-ad-din was also the inventor of some of them (flour - a bass variety of a lute, nuzga - a kind of gusli).