Al-Farabi’s philosophy of music “The Legality of Music”

Abstract

This article's approach is to acquire Al Farabi's point of view on the philosophy of music. Under the heading of Farabi's music philosophy, we determine that music is not just about art and entertainment. For this reason, he carried the theme to a higher level in terms of science and philosophy with his proof method studies. First of all, we aimed to discover the traces of Farabi's inquiry method from his works. A philosopher and musician, Abu Nasr Al Farabi, wrote on the perfect city, logic, astronomy, linguistics, politics, mathematics, geometry, medicine, optic, philosophy, and music, known as the 'second teacher', the first being Aristotle. This investigation contributes to practical and theoretical music proposing formation in the context of correlation. From this perspective, a musical system's consistency level relies on a sense-perception, a method of relevant indications within other comparable and correlated systems. This inquiry analyzes correlations' modalities, exploring their general and particular attributes and their operational bounds. This article evaluated the description of meaning from one cognitive domain to another mental part, such as from mathematics to music or astronomy or psychology correlated with music science. Approaching music science with dimension and paradigm determined the requirement for detailed music research in science and measurement criteria. His book 'Ihsa', which describes the nature and enumeration of science in philosophy and science classification, was recognized in the Middle Ages. However, 'Musiqa' tops the list of Arab theoretical studies and has had a remarkable impact on later Arab music theory.

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“…In ancient Greece, Appolo, the patron God of music and poetry (poetry: light, sun and prophecy; drama: insipration and catarsis for entire community), is also recognised as the divinity of medicine and healing (Chavis, 2011), thus, directly linked to "health" issues. Al-Farabi, the Central Asian scientist who wrote on the perfect city, logic, astronomy, linguistics, politics, mathematics, geometry, medicine, optic, philosophy, and music, known as the 'second teacher' (after Aristotle, the first teacher) discussed the importance of music (Nurysheva & Tercan, 2021). Music was not only as an art form, but also as a tool for cultivating the soul and promoting physical and mental well-being in the 9th AD (Nurysheva & Tercan, 2021).…”

“…Al-Farabi, the Central Asian scientist who wrote on the perfect city, logic, astronomy, linguistics, politics, mathematics, geometry, medicine, optic, philosophy, and music, known as the 'second teacher' (after Aristotle, the first teacher) discussed the importance of music (Nurysheva & Tercan, 2021). Music was not only as an art form, but also as a tool for cultivating the soul and promoting physical and mental well-being in the 9th AD (Nurysheva & Tercan, 2021). Al-Farabi who raised most of his philosophy and theory on Greek philosophers such as Aristotle, Pythagoras and Plato, wrote in his Great Book of Music: -Music is beneficial for everyone, both to cure diseases and to maintain health".…”

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“…Естественная основа опирается на особенности места, климата, пейзажа. Искусственная надстройка может следовать моде, подражать популярным образцам, но только внешне, поверхностно, ни в коем случае не посягая на естественную основу [9].…”