Habib Hassan Touma (Arabic: حبيب حسن توما) (12 December 1934 – 10 August 1998)[1] was a Palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist, born in Nazareth, who lived and worked for many years in Berlin, Germany.[2] Touma authored a number of books, essays and musicological studies on Arabic; Turkish or Iranian music, among them The Music of the Arabs, first published in 1975 in German and translated into several languages.[3]

He was also a book review editor for the ethnomusicological journal The World of Music, published by the International Institute for Traditional Music in Berlin.[4] Among other studies based on his field work in Arabic countries, he published a description and photographs of the Work Songs of the Gulf Pearl Divers of Bahrain.[5] Another of his studies treated the Arabic musical influence on the Iberian Peninsula during the period of Al-Andalus.[6]

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  1. ^ "Touma, Habib, 1934-1998 - Library of Congress". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  2. ^ Hemetek (2014), pp. 27, 45 n.1
  3. ^ O'Connell, John (1990). "Review of Die Musik der Araber (The Music of the Arabs)". Asian Music. 22 (1): 154–156. doi:10.2307/834296. ISSN 0044-9202. JSTOR 834296.
  4. ^ "history of the journal | the world of music (new series)". Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  5. ^ Touma, Habib Hassan (1977). "The Fidjrí, a Major Vocal Form of the Bahrain Pearl-divers". The World of Music. 19 (3/4): 121–127. ISSN 0043-8774. JSTOR 43560495.
  6. ^ Touma, Habib Hassan (1987). "Indications of Arabian Musical Influence on the Iberian Peninsula from the 8Th to the 13Th Century". Revista de Musicología. 10 (1): 137–150. doi:10.2307/20795088. ISSN 0210-1459. JSTOR 20795088.
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