The System of Arabic Phonetics According to Arab Musicians Phonetic Reviews

Abstract

This research aims to study the vowel system of the Arabic language from the perspective of musicology, highlighting the depth, creativity, and openness of musical insight to the sound phenomenon, as it carries, alongside its linguistic communicative dimension, a musical aspect that allows sounds to perform musical functions in addition to their linguistic functions. In this study, we adopted a comparative analytical approach, analyzing the efforts of ancient and modern phonetic scholars and comparing them with the contributions of musicologists in their numerous works on the subject of the vowel system. Among the prominent results of the research, there was the indication of the leadership of musicologists in addressing the vocal system in general, and the vowel system in particular, starting from the causes of sound production, its transmission, and ending up with hearing and receiving sounds. We also highlighted their leadership in accurately defining Arabic vowels from a musical perspective. In addition, we uncovered the criteria adopted by musicians in classifying vowels, represented by the standard of blending, which ranges between mixing them individually and collectively, and the standard of the pleasure of the audible.