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Women, the recited Qur'an, and Islamic music in Indonesia
Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Contemporary Indonesia takes readers to the heart of religious musical praxis in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world. Anne K. Rasmussen explores a rich public soundscape, where women recite the divine texts of the Qur'an, and where an extraordinary diversity of Arab-influenced Islamic musical styles and genres, also performed by women, flourishes. Based on unique and revealing ethnographic research beginning at the end of Suharto's \"New Order\" and continuing into the era of \"Reformation,\" the book considers the powerful role of music in the expression of religious nationalism. In particular, it focuses on musical style, women's roles, and the ideological and aesthetic issues raised by the Indonesian style of recitation.
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Nauczanie żywego słowa według Marii Wiercińskiej: Publikacje artystki z lat 1935–1938
This article discusses Maria Wiercińska’s publications. The artist abandoned her acting career in the season of 1934/35, and she got qualified to work as a theatre director only after WW2. In the second half of the 1930s, she was occupied exclusively with recitation performances and—with real commitment—to teaching recitation at various levels; this is what all her publications are about. She wrote from a practitioner’s point of view. She distinguished the necessary stages of working on a recitation performance: taking interest, developing understanding, feeling the text, and delivering the presentation, with an emphasis on individual interpretation; the basis was to master enunciation. This was the model she herself adopted in her recitation work, and she proposed it to students of acting, teachers, school and pre- school children. Working with children was particularly important in her view; she believed that teaching recitation not only gives them technique and expressiveness, but also shapes their aesthetic sense and social skills, and develops creativity. The article presents Wiercińska’s program in the context of the development of radio broadcasting, new pedagogical methods, publications for schools, and the popularity of school theatre. It showcases ordinary, under-appreciated work and retrieves an interesting but forgotten artist for theatre history. It thus fits into the framework of revising the dominant narrative of theatre history, focused on canonical titles and names, as well as into the feminist agenda in theatre research.
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Localized Timbres and Tonalities of Qur'ānic Recitation: From Africa to Indonesia
Throughout most of its history, Islam localized to globalize, spreading a universal message of belief in the oneness of God ( tawḥīd ), which flexibily adapted to global cultures. This process was facilitated in part through oral traditions of performance and transmission. Such functional adaptation supported globalization by catalyzing engagement with local populations, enhancing the impact of Islam's theological message. This article examines the ways in which this process occurred in the context of Qur'ānic recitation, more specifically the ways in which timbral and tonal variations of Qur'ānic recitation came to reflect local sonic cultures. The article begins by noting the centrality of language performance to Islamic ritual practice and identifies elements of that practice which are fixed and variable. It further describes how Qur'ānic recitation is constrained by three fixed textual sources, namely the unvocalized Arabic text ( muṣḥaf ), the canonical \"readings\" of Qur'ānic recitation ( qirā'āt ), and the established rules of recitation ( aḥkām al-tajwīd ). Beyond these three elements, however, Qur'ānic recitation can adapt in dialectical relation to the local soundscape, including language and music. Over many generations this adaptive process resulted in a broadly ramified structure, which has steadily eroded since the late nineteenth century due to new technologies of mass media and rapid transport. Nonetheless, local varieties of Qur'ānic recitation persist into the twenty-first century, as illustrated by this article's analysis of six different recitations of the first chapter of the Qur'ān, al-Fātiḥa (The Opener), drawn from a selection of reciters from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Indonesia. The analysis of these recitations, highlighting timbral and tonal differences in relation to local culture, suggests lines of inquiry for future research in this domain.
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Master Yin’s Mellifluous Chanting: Daoist Scripture Recitation in Tang Dynasty Epigraphy
Building on recent scholarship on entombed epitaph inscriptions ( muzhiming 墓志銘) and Daoism, this article examines a commemorative burial inscription of a Daoist monastic priest, Revered Master Yin 尹尊師 (d. 747), who garnered the attention of the imperial court and Emperor Xuanzong 玄宗 (r. 713–756) through scripture recitation and ritual performance. Daoists recited a range of texts, but the language of the epitaph suggests a particular focus on Numinous Treasure ( Lingbao 靈寶) works. Combining a reading of the epitaph alongside several monastic manuals and commentaries, which outline Tang recitation practices, this paper sheds light on aspects of everyday Daoist practice in the Tang dynasty. Read together, these sources suggest a unique Daoist vision of scripture recitation, one characterized by celestial sound production and the powerful, transformative nature of its reproduction.
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An efficient holy Quran recitation recognizer based on SVM learning model
Holy Quran recitation recognition refers to the process of identifying the type of recitation, among those
authorized styles of recitation (“Qira’ah” in Arabic). Several previous studies investigated the recitation rules
(“Ahkam Al-Tajweed” in Arabic) that are applied by readers or reciters while reading the Holy Quran aloud, but
no study has examined the problem of tracking the type of recitation used in the reading. Through this research,
we can assist Holy Quran students to easily learn the perfect and accurate recitation by successfully applying
Ahkam Al-Tajweed and help them distinguish between different recitations or \"Qira’ah\". In this paper, a
recognition model is conducted to recognize the “Qira’ah” from the corresponding Holy Quran acoustic wave.
This model was built upon three phases; the first phase is the Mel-Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (MFCC)
feature extraction of the acoustic signal and labeling it, the second phase is training Support Vector Machine
(SVM) learning model the labeled features and finally, recognizing “Qira’ah” based on this trained model. To
attain this, we have built our corpus, which has 10 categories, each of which is labeled as one type of Holy Quran
recitation or “Qira’ah”. Different machine learning algorithms were applied and compared. Experimental results
proved the superiority of our proposed SVM-based recognition model for “Qira’ah” over other machine learning
algorithms with a success rate of 96%.
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