Preface

Telling history in motion
Dismantled machinery
Illusive empowerment

Part One
Modes of Thinking

Chapter I
Emotion and the Aesthetic

[Snapshot]
Emotion and the Economy of Aesthetics
The emotional economy of aesthetics
A living music
Central marginality
Music complexity
Mode as metaphor
Understanding through imagination
A dynamic outlook on method
[Snapshot]
A scholarship of emotion
Discursive subjectivities
Scholar(ship) and subject(s)
Situationality as liminality
Aestheticizing the emotional

Chapter II
Edessan Christians in Hayy al-Suryan

Unique sounds, against historic odds
Syriac liturgy and theology
Modern Christianity with ancient roots
Begging pardon: Shubqono
Forty times "Forty Bows"
Early asceticism for modern worshippers
Body, voice, and gendered spaces

Part Two
Modes of Knowledge

Chapter III
Eight Old Syriac Modes

Definitions and tools
Conventional European tools
Local tools
Music book and ontological value
Written Sources
"The Ethicon" and "The Pearls"
Suryani musicology
"Tableau sans ombres"
Re-shifting focus

Chapter IV
Chant As Local Knowledge

Contested modality
A monastic perspective
Music knowledge and Hayy al-Suryan
Transcription
Theoretical issues
Local challenges
Handwriting tradition
Knowledge, modality, and influences

Part Three
Modes of Value

Chapter V
Suryaniness

Ethnic spirituality
Place/space and Urfa/Edessa
Language
Sound originality
Sacred texts
Sacred melodies

Chapter VI
Performing Value

The Washing of the Feet
Building up sadness

Chapter VII
Authority

Performing authority
[Snapshot] Value, one morning, and a camera
Voicing authority
Performative complexity

Part Four
Modalities of Song and Emotion

Chapter VIII
Hasho

Huzn as religious aesthetic
Hasho, a Syriac term
Canonic sadness
Aestheticized emotionality
By the cross
Hasho, the mode
Epilogue
Non-Conclusions
Glossary
References