This volume presents the proceedings of the international congress
"Rhythmic Cycles and Structures in the Art Music of the Middle East"
that took place at Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat, Munster, on 27-28
February 2014. The congress was organized by the Ethnomusicology and
European Music History Section of the Department for Musicology and
Music Education in cooperation with Orient-Institut Istanbul (part of
the Max Weber Foundation). The present volume follows on thematically
from the book Writing the History of "Ottoman Music," which discusses
the foundations and current problems of research on music and music
history in the Ottoman context, thereby contributing to the development
of new perspectives and methods.