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Medieval Arab Music and Musicians: Three Translated Texts

Medieval Arab Music and Musicians: Three Translated Texts

Hardcover

General Asian HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryMusic Reference

ISBN10: 9004501517
ISBN13: 9789004501515
Publisher: Brill
Published: Dec 17 2021
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Medieval Arab Music and Musicians offers complete, annotated English translations of three of the most important medieval Arabic texts on music and musicians: the biography of the musician Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī from al-Iṣbahānī's Kitāb al-Aghānī (10th c), the biography of the musician Ziryāb from Ibn Ḥayyān's Kitāb al-Muqtabis (11th c), and the earliest treatise on the muwashshaḥ Andalusi song genre, Dār al-Ṭirāz, by the Egyptian scholar Ibn Sanā' al-Mulk (13th c).
Al-Mawṣilī, the most famous musician of his era, was also the teacher of the legendary Ziryāb, who traveled from Baghdad to al-Andalus and is often said to have laid the foundations of Andalusi music. The third text is crucial to any understanding of the medieval muwashshaḥ and its possible relations to the Troubadours, the Cantigas de Santa María, and the Andalusi musical traditions of the modern Middle East.

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