New book by Ali Kisserwan: Meeting of the Great Pyramids

Quote: Originally posted by newlife_ks

Not a single link for this title on the web except for the video from Kalamazoo College. Where can I buy those books?

the new cover

Quote: Originally posted by suz_i_dil

Great news, congrats for this new publishing. I understand the content of vol 1 and that I will be proposed in English and Arabic version. what about the contents and translation of vol 2 and 3 ? or did I misunderstood and they all come together ? Best wishes of success

Awesome work!!

This will be an amazing resource.

5dear all

In coordination with the author and under his supervision, you can find below an example from "Meeting of the Great Pyramids" book:

Second section – vocal-first passage and Second section- vocal – second passage/Istihlāl from “’Inta ‘Umrī. The analysis, scores and the audio files are attached.
Notes:
We depended on studio recordings as the sources for transcription.
The musical notation was divided into sentences, and we put red signs at the phrases and the cell for more clarifications.
The vocal record was divided into sentences, phrases and cells.
There is a detailed and enough explanation for the symbolic writing at the beginning of the book with the abbreviations, In addition to definitions and clarifications. As well, we created a new way to write the musical notation (symbolic and semi-symbolic writings), and By necessity, we have devised a way of writing out musical notation structurally. First, because it was necessary to translate the musical notation into numbers, terms and structural formulas. Second, to avoid repeating the transcription of the work a second time, bit by bit, which would cause each section, along with its explanation and analysis, to occupy a needlessly large amount of space in the book. Additionally, it is useful for the musical score to be complete and contiguous to facilitate performance, instead of being divided into scattered sentences, phrases and cells. Whereas, the purpose of the structural formulas is analysis of the musical work.
The lyrics of the vocal section – the example:
illayālil ḥilwah wishshūʾ wil maḥabbah min zamān wil ʾalbi shāyilhum ʿashānak
Dūʾ maʿāyal ḥubb dūʾ ḥabbah biḥabbah min ḥanān ʾalbī illī ṭāl shūʾul ḥanānak

Some abbreviations:
The introduction I
The section D
Vocal voc
Music/musical mu
Sentence s where { } is used
Phrase p where [ ] is used
Semi phrase sp where (( )) is used
Cell c where ( ) is used



to be continued...

The scores