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Al-Kindī's braid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

O. WRIGHT
O. WRIGHT
Affiliation:
School of Oriental and African Studies
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Abstract

An attempt is made here to evaluate the various versions that have been put forward for the more complex abstract melodic structures outlined by the Arab philosopher and music theorist al-Kindī (d. c. 874); to propose new interpretations in the context of a re-examination of the source text; and to locate their origin and meaning less within the general mathematical orientation of theory than in the elaboration of a descriptive metaphor.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 69 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 1 - 32
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School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2006

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