Music and Book in the Abrahamic traditions

The exhibition "Music and Book in the Abrahamic Traditions" (curated by G.B. Shamilli) opened at the Center for Oriental Literature of the Russian State Library on November 8, 2017 as part of the conference "The Thought of Music in the Abrahamic Traditions-2017". Rare old printed editions in Zerbaijan, Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Yiddish, Persian and Turkish were presented. The genre diversity of the book exhibits, from a treatise on music and fundamental works on the history of musical cultures to religious, theological, apocryphal and other literature, corresponded to the thematic blocks of the conference and the main task was to present the language of music description in a variety of literary canons. When analyzing and translating terms, concepts such as musiqi ("music") or nagma ("tone") are filled with different meanings depending on the genre literary canon, which initially sets the rules for the language of music description, which are directly dependent on the type of coherence of its fundamental categories. The display cases were decorated with an inflorescence of works by Hasan bey Zardabi (1837-1907), Komitas (1869-1935), Uzeyir Hajibeyov (1885-1948), Moisey Beregovsky (1892-1961), Ruhollah Khaleki (1906-1965) and other scientists and musical figures of the past, whose contribution to the development of music was appreciated by subsequent generations.