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Henry George Farmer (17 January 1882 – 20 December 1965) was a British musicologist and Arabist. He studied under Thomas Hunter Weir, Professor of Oriental Languages at University of Glasgow. He wrote extensively about Arab musical influences on the European musical tradition and the Islamic legacy to music theory .
Vida y Biografía de Henry George Farmer (Birr, 1882-Law, 1966) Director de orquesta y musicólogo irlandés. Fundó y dirigió la Orquesta sinfónica de Glasgow (1919-1943). Fue un enorme estudioso de la música árabe (Historia de la música árabe hasta el s. XIII, 1929). Colabora para ampliar la biografía de Henry George Farmer
Henry George Farmer (1882-1965) was a pioneering musicologist who specialized in Arab music. In 1932, he participated in the First International Congress of Arab Music in Cairo, during which he maintained a journal recording his daily... See More. Copyright Year: 2015. E-Book (PDF) Availability: Published. ISBN:
- Israel Katz
- March 20, 2015
In the first half of the twentieth century, Henry George Farmer (1882-1965) became the leading scholar in the study of Arabic historical musical sources, writing extensively on different aspects of Perso-Arabic music in the Medieval period. What particularly distinguished Farmer from other scholars in the same field was his vast knowledge of
was a nephew of the Nottingham Henry Farmer (fc 179.23). As to his mater-nal grandparents, they can be traced remotely to the Afflecks and Allans of Scotland.5 His mother, Mary Ann (née Harling) (b. 1850), died on March 1st, 1907 in hospital in Woolwich, London. For the greater part of his professional life, Henry George Farmer was, first
English. Physical Description. 13.45 metres (7 boxes) Scope and Content. Papers and correspondence of Henry George Farmer (1882-1965), musician and orientalist. The collection includes diaries, drafts of books and articles, and correspondence with contemporary composers and music critics such as Learmont Drysdale, Hamish MacCunn, Ernest Newman.
12 de dic. de 2016 · Henry George Farmer and the First International Congress of Arab Music (Cairo 1932) by Israel Katz, Sheila M. Craik, and Amnon Shiloah (2014). Leiden: Brill. 430 pp., $181.00. ISBN 978-90-04-26319-2 (hardcover), ISBN 978-90-04-28414-2 (e-book)
