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kalam
Islamic speculative theology. It arose during the Umayyad dynasty over varying interpretations of the Quran and over questions the Quran provoked, incl. those on predestination, free will, and the nature of God. The most prominent early school was the 8th-cent. Mutazila, which asserted the supremacy of reason, championed free will, and rejected an anthropomorphic characterization of God. The 10th-cent. school of Ashariya displaced Mutazila and moved kalam back toward traditional faith, accepting, for example, the eternal, uncreated nature of the Quran and its literal truth.


kilim
Pileless floor covering handwoven by tapestry techniques in Anatolia, the Balkans, and parts of Iran. The name is also given to a variety of brocaded, embroidered, warp-faced, and other flat-woven rugs and bags. A common characteristic is a slit that occurs wherever two colors meet along a vertical line in the pattern. The finest examples are silk 16th-17th-cent. pieces from Kashan, Iran. The largest kilims are produced in Turkey, as are smaller examples and prayer kilims (prayer rugs); Turkish weavers often use cotton for the white areas, and small details may be brocaded. The kilims of the S Balkans, originally copies of Turkish types, gradually developed individual styles. Kilims become progressively less Oriental in color and pattern as the distance from Turkey increases.


kithara
Large lyre of classical antiquity, the principal stringed instrument of the Greeks and later of the Romans. It had a box-shaped resonating body from which extended two parallel arms connected by a crossbar to which 3-12 strings were attached. It was held vertically and plucked with a plectrum; the left hand was used to stop and damp the strings. It was played by singers of the Greek epics, as well as by later professional accompanists and soloists.


Milhaud
French composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, then at the Schola Cantorum with V. d'Indy. He accompanied P. Claudel to Brazil (1916), and wrote Saudades do Brazil (1921) on his return, when he was becoming known as one of Les Six. The influence of jazz is audible in his best-known work, La cré ation du monde (1923). He wrote many ballets, operas, and film scores in the 1920s, culminating in the grand opera Christophe Colomb (1928). In 1940 he moved to the U.S. and taught at Mills College; though he returned to Europe in 1947, he taught alternate years at Mills and in Paris. He had a longtime association with the Aspen Music Festival, which he helped found in 1949.

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