Mar 212021
 

English NEMO-Online is delighted to announce the publication of Amine Beyhom’s new article entitled: “Further Analyses from the VIAMAP”. The article is a sequel to two already published articles, “MAT for the VIAMAP” and “The Lost Art of Maqām”, with 4 new video analyses and two explanatory videos. [With this article and analyses, the author] has opened a completely novel way of scientific enquiry in musicology. Wim van der Meer Amine Beyhom: “Further Analyses from the VIAMAP,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 6 10 |2021-11(04)| p. 5–36. (updated) Additional material: Video Analysis no. 1 (YouTube publication) of a taqsīm (improvisation) by Kudsi [more…]

Dec 022020
 

NEMO-Online Vol. 5 Nos. 8&9 is now available for downloading and as hardcover (links below) / Le Vol. 5 nos 8&9 de NEMO-Online est disponible pour téléchargement et en version cartonnée imprimée (liens ci-dessous). All pdf articles in theses volumes are available individually at https://nemo-online.org/articles and bookmarked for titles, subtitles and figures / tous les articles au format pdf de ces volumes sont téléchargeables individuellement à https://nemo-online.org/articles et contiennent des marque-pages correspondant aux titres, sous-titres et figures. NEMO-Online Vol. 5 Editor’s letter / Éditorial / كلمة الناشرين p. i-xii NEMO-Online No. 8 (Vol. 5) Amine Beyhom: “The Lost Art of [more…]

Nov 292020
 

English NEMO-Online is delighted to announce the publication of Amine Beyhom’s new Dossier entitled: “Was the Early Arabian ʿūd ‘fretted’”. In this dossier, Amine Beyhom follows his thoughts about musicological Orientalism and dissects what he considers as a fabrication of orientalist musicology, the ‘fretting’ of the Arabian ʿūd at the dawn of Islam. Amine Beyhom: “Dossier: Was the Early Arabian ʿūd ‘fretted’?,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 5 9 |2020-11| p. 113–196. Additional material: Video no. 1 (YouTube publication) entitled Fretting of the ʿūd according to (al-) Kindī,‎ ‎ ‎and showing the stringing and positioning of the frets ‎as explained by (al-) [more…]

Dec 112016
 

English NEMO-Online Vol. 4 Nos. 6 & 7 : Call for papers Research groups CERMAA, ICONEA and IReMus are seeking papers for the sixth and seventh issues of NEMO. The theme, continued from the theme of NEMO-Online No. 5 (available here), is about ‘Musicology/Ethnomusicology: evolutions, problems, alternatives’. We would like these issues of NEMO to continue the debate initiated in NEMO-Online No. 5 concerning the usefulness of the science, the problems raised due to powerful and contradictory non-scientific characteristics, and the alternatives which may be proposed. Papers to be sent both to Richard Dumbrill (rdumbrill[[[]]]nemo-online.org) and Amine Beyhom (abeyhom[[[]]]nemo-online.org) and should [more…]

Dec 042016
 

(click on the title of each article for the corresponding pdf version / cliquer sur les titres des articles pour télécharger les pdf). The redaction of NEMO-Online is pleased to announce the reissue of NEMO-Online Vol. 1 No. 1 and NEMO-Online Vol. 2 No. 2&3 as individual articles / La rédaction de NEMO-Online a le plaisir d’annoncer une nouvelle édition de NEMO-Online Vol. 1 No. 1 et NEMO-Online Vol. 2 No. 2&3 en articles individuels. Reminder / Rappel: NEMO-Online Vol. 3 No. 4&5 / is available / est disponible (November 2016). NEMO-Online Vol. 1 No. 1 Reissue 2016/12 : (all pdf [more…]

Nov 242016
 

(click on the title of each article for the corresponding pdf version / cliquer sur les titres des articles pour télécharger les pdf). NEMO-Online Vol. 3 : (all pdf articles in this volume are bookmarked for titles, subtitles and figures / tous les articles au format pdf de ce volume contiennent des marque-pages correspondant aux titres, sous-titres et figures) Editor’s letter / Éditorial / كلمة الناشرين : Instrumental facture & Evolution of musicology and ethnomusicology / Facture instrumentale & Évolution de la musicologie et de l’ethnomusicologie /  صناعة الآلات وتطوّر علم الموسيقولوجيا والإتنوموسيقولوجيا NEMO-Online No. 4 contents / contenu / ملخّص : [more…]

Nov 262015
 

English Free download of the articles of Nemo-Online below (click for the pdf version on the corresponding title of each article).  Issue 4 of NEMO-Online and editorial will be available in hard copy and pdf with Issue 5 in Volume 3, November 2016.   NEMO-Online 4 contents : Instrumental facture from its sources in the Ancient Near East to modern times Jean During : ‘The Baluchi benju, a new traditional instrument,’ Near Eastern Musicology Online 3 4 |2015-11| p. 5–12. In the years 1920 a small dulcimer with a keyboard appeared in Karachi, brought by Japanese sailors. This musical toy became an essential Baluchi instrument [more…]

May 172015
 

English NEMO-Online No. 4 : Call for papers Research groups CERMAA, ICONEA and IReMus are seeking papers for the third issue of NEMO. The theme will be about ‘Instrumental facture from its sources in the Ancient Near East to modern times.’ All aspects of Organology will be considered such as: Prehistory: Instrument making in pre-history as an unconscious cognitive phenomenon Distinction between implement and instrument Sensorial analogy in the conceptualisation of musical instruments History: Instruments and totemism Instruments and worship Instruments as urban and commercial tools Earliest evidence of musical facture Organological evidence: material, glues and their making, hides, strings, [more…]

May 132015
 

(English) We are very pleased to announce that Ralf Martin Jäger, Professor in ethnomusicology and History of European music in the Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikpaedagogik of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität – Münster, has joined the Academic Board of NEMO-Online. Ralf Jäger is a renowned musicologist with numerous publications in the fields of Turkish music and music of Eastern-Asia. His competence is a welcome complement to the Academic Board of NEMO-Online, and an extension towards German musicology. We warmly welcome him among us. (French) Nous avons le très grand plaisir d’annoncer que Ralf Martin Jäger, Professeur d’ethnomusicologie d’Histoire de la musique [more…]