Liu, Benjamin M.
Ten Hispano-Arabic Strophic Songs in the Modern Oral Tradition Music and Texts : music and texts / Benjamin M. Liu ; James T. Monroe
Ten Hispano-Arabic Strophic Songs in the Modern Oral Tradition Music and Texts : music and texts / Benjamin M. Liu ; James T. Monroe . - xxa US xxa-fimyyc University of California Press yyc-fim, 1989 . - 101p. . - (University of California publications in modern philology) . -
This work explores the literary and musical connections between Hispano-Arabic strophic songs of the muwashshaha-zajal genre, and their medieval Romance cognates, the ballata, cantiga, dansa, rondeau, villancico, and virelai . The authors begin with a general essay based on recent scholarship in Arabic, Romance, and ethnomusicological studies and then present a translation of Al-Tifashi's key 13th-century Arabic treatise on the musical tradition of Arab Spain. The appendices provide texts and translations of ten poems that modern scholarship attributes to or authenticates as part of the Hispano-Arabic song repertory, and musical notations of these texts as sung in Arab countries today. The authors suggest that the living tradition of Andalusian music surviving in the Arab world preserves a priceless echo, be it ever so distorted, of the lost tradition of Hispano-Arabic songs. They conclude that this tradition was a subtle blending of imported Oriental elements combined with others native to the Romance-singing Iberian Peninsula.
0520097513
Music
Music - History and criticism
Muwashshah - History and criticism
Portuguese Music
Songs, Arabic
Songs, Arabic - History and criticism
Zajal - History and criticism
ML2847.L5 1989
Ten Hispano-Arabic Strophic Songs in the Modern Oral Tradition Music and Texts : music and texts / Benjamin M. Liu ; James T. Monroe . - xxa US xxa-fimyyc University of California Press yyc-fim, 1989 . - 101p. . - (University of California publications in modern philology) . -
This work explores the literary and musical connections between Hispano-Arabic strophic songs of the muwashshaha-zajal genre, and their medieval Romance cognates, the ballata, cantiga, dansa, rondeau, villancico, and virelai . The authors begin with a general essay based on recent scholarship in Arabic, Romance, and ethnomusicological studies and then present a translation of Al-Tifashi's key 13th-century Arabic treatise on the musical tradition of Arab Spain. The appendices provide texts and translations of ten poems that modern scholarship attributes to or authenticates as part of the Hispano-Arabic song repertory, and musical notations of these texts as sung in Arab countries today. The authors suggest that the living tradition of Andalusian music surviving in the Arab world preserves a priceless echo, be it ever so distorted, of the lost tradition of Hispano-Arabic songs. They conclude that this tradition was a subtle blending of imported Oriental elements combined with others native to the Romance-singing Iberian Peninsula.
0520097513
Music
Music - History and criticism
Muwashshah - History and criticism
Portuguese Music
Songs, Arabic
Songs, Arabic - History and criticism
Zajal - History and criticism
ML2847.L5 1989
