John Erlich
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Best Arabic Resources to Teach Music Reading?
A question for you Arabic-speakers out there:
What are the best generally available (free) resources to teach Arabic speakers who know solfège how to read musical notation ("notat"). Are any of
the Arabic oud books freely available in PDF (Mashaal, Basha, Jabakji, Bashir, etc.) better than the others? Are there any preferred YouTube videos?
This issue has come up a few times, and I want to be able to point to resources for Arabic speakers.
Alf shukran in advance for any feedback or ideas!
-"Udi" John
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I don't know about "the best", but for music reading, Jamil Bashir's "The Oud Teaching Method" is more than sufficient.
The book is freely available in PDF.. (I actually just printed it out tonight for the exercises), the first few pages explain music reading in
detail.
I have volume 1 of the book, send me a U2U.
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MattOud
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Here is a link to what Oudistan is referencing!
http://www.mikeouds.com/messageboard/viewthread.php?tid=6257
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John Erlich
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Quote: Originally posted by Oudistan  | I don't know about "the best", but for music reading, Jamil Bashir's "The Oud Teaching Method" is more than sufficient.
The book is freely available in PDF.. (I actually just printed it out tonight for the exercises), the first few pages explain music reading in
detail.
I have volume 1 of the book, send me a U2U. |
Thanks. Yes, I have 4 Jamil Bashir books and several others I listed. I was curious among Arabic speakers which one they think is the best written
and clearest copy. The PDFs of the "basics" sections of all the books generally and freely available as PDFs tend to make my eyes bleed. But I know
only a little Arabic. Of these books, the Khaled Basha book has the clearest manuscripts, but his music reading section is quite perfunctory.
I did find a couple videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7HepgxPFgg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5QEmFRJp9A
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Brian Prunka
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My expectation would be the best books to teach music reading are focused on Western Classical music, not traditional Arabic music. There are a great
many Arab musicians who play western music, so I expect that these resources exist in Arabic.
Most Arabic music books have rather simplistic and perfunctory introductions to music reading, and the exercises are not pedagogically organized to
really teach reading, they are organized to teach maqam and oud technique.
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John Erlich
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| Quote: Originally posted by Brian Prunka | My expectation would be the best books to teach music reading are focused on Western Classical music, not traditional Arabic music. There are a great
many Arab musicians who play western music, so I expect that these resources exist in Arabic.
Most Arabic music books have rather simplistic and perfunctory introductions to music reading, and the exercises are not pedagogically organized to
really teach reading, they are organized to teach maqam and oud technique.
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My experience with Arabic music books generally matches yours, Brian. I was just wondering if one was better than the others out there.
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