Arab Folk Music Bibliography

G.A. Villoteau: Description historique, technique et littraire des instrumens de

musique des orientaux, Description de lEgypte: Etat moderne, i, ed. E.F. Jomard
(Paris, 1809), 8461016
G.A. Villoteau: De ltat actuel de lart musical en Egypte,Description de
lEgypte: Etat moderne, i, ed. E.F. Jomard (Paris, 1809), 607845
E.W. Lane: An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians
(London, 1836, 5/1860/R1966)
M. Hartmann: Arabische Lieder aus Syrien, Zeitschrift der deutschen
morgenlndischen Gesellschaft, li (1897), 177214
M. Hartmann: Lieder der libyschen Wste, Abhandlung fr die Kunde des
Morgenlndes, xi/3 (1899)
J.C. Ewald Falls: Beduinen-Lieder der libyschen Wste (Cairo, 1908)
A.Z. Idelsohn: Hebrisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz (Leipzig and Berlin,
191432; Eng. trans. 19223; mixed repr. 1973)
B. Bartk: Die Volksmusik der Araber von Biskra und Umgebung, ZMw, ii
(191920), 489522
S.H. Stephan: Modern Palestinian Parallels to the Song of Songs, Journal of the
Palestine Oriental Society, ii (1922), 20278
P. Toschi: Musica popolare tripolina, Lares, viii (1937), 136
A. Abdullah: Dancing East of Suez, Dancing Times, new ser., no.333 (1938),
2748; 40003
M. Schneider: A propsito del influjo rabe, AnM, i (1946), 31141
R.A. Waterman and others: Bibliography of Asiatic Musics, Notes, v (19478),
2135, 17886, 35462, 54962; vi (19489), 12236, 28196, 41936,
57083; vii (194950), 8498, 26579, 41523, 61321; viii (195051), 100
18, 3229
R.B. Serjeant, ed.: The Hadrami Song, Prose and Poetry from
Hadramawt(London, 1951), 1750
M.A. Murray: Ancient and Modern Ritual Dances in the Near East, Folk-lore, lxvi
(1955), 401
B.S. Rasheed: Egyptian Folk Songs (New York and Cairo, 1958)
P.R. Olsen: Enregistrements faits Kuwait et Bahrain, Ethnomusicologie III
[andIV]: Wgimont IV [recte V] 1958 and 1960, 13770
E.F. Wente: Egyptian Make Merry Songs Reconsidered, Journal of Near
Eastern Studies, xxi (1962), 118
M. Abdelkafi: Les mariages en Tripolitaine (Tripoli, 1964)
E. Gerson-Kiwi: Womens Songs from the Yemen: their Tonal Structure and
Form,The Commonwealth of Music, in Honor of Curt Sachs (New York,
1965), 97

T. Alexandru: La musique populaire de lEgypte (Cairo, 1967)

S. Jargy: La posie populaire traditionnelle chante au Proche-Orient arabe, i
(Paris,1970)
S.M.A. Khavas: Sovremennaya arabskaya narodnaya pesnya [Modern Arab
folksongs] (Moscow, 1970)
J. Kuckertz: Origin and Development of the Rabb, Sangeet natak, xv (1970),
JanMarch, 16
A.A. Murs: al-Ughniya al-shabiyya [Folksong] (Cairo, 1970; enlarged 1983)
A. Shiloah: The Simsimiyya: a Stringed Instrument of the Red Sea Area, AsM,
iv/1 (19723), 1526
A. Simon: Studien zur gyptischen Volksmusik (Hamburg, 1972)
A. Shiloah: A Group of Arabic Wedding Songs from the Village of Deyr alAsad,Folklore Research Center Studies, iv (1974), 26796
A. Shiloah: Instruments aux anches de types hautbois et clarinette double en
Proche Orient: de leur diffusion, terminologie, fonction, Makedonski folklor,
vii/13 (1974), 4752
M.T.S. al-Duwayk: al-Ughniya al-shabiyya f Qatar [The folksong in Qatar] (Doha,
1975; abridged 1990)
A. Simon: Zur Oboen-Trommel-Musik in gypten, Neue ethnomusikologische
Forschungen: Festschrift Felix Hoerburger (Laaber, 1977), 15366
S. Jargy: The Folk Music of Syria and Lebanon, World of Music, xx/1 (1978), 79
92
J. Elsner: Trommeln und Trommelnensembles im Jemen, Beitrge zur
traditionellen Musik: Neustrelitz 1989, 1837
A. Shiloah: West Asia, Ethnomusicology: Historical and Regional Studies, ed. H. Myers
(London, 1993), 26073