Music in Ancient Arabia and Spain

Julian Ribera

• Publisher: Vincent Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9781406739299
• eBook ISBN: 9781446545577
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

This antiquarian text contains a fascinating treatise on ancient Arabic and Spanish music, with information on its structure, history, diversity, and much more. The topic of ancient Arabic and Spanish music is one full of mystery and lost knowledge, and this detailed monogram on the subject offers its readers a unique and invaluable insight into this realm of lost art. A book that will be of considerable utility to those with an interest in the topic, 'Music In Ancient Arabia And Spain' is not to be missed by the discerning collector. The chapters of this book include: 'Difficulties in The Way of Historical Investigations into the Art of Music', 'Ignorance of the Music in the Ancients', 'Lack of Knowledge of Medieval Arabic Music', 'Investigations into Arabic Music', 'Methods and Criteria used in Determining its Structure', 'Results Obtained', and much more. We are republishing this book with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Translator’s Foreword
• Table of Contents
• Chronology
• Introduction
• Chapter I. Difficulties in the Way of Historical Investigations into the Art of Music :: Ignorance of the Music of the Ancients :: Lack of Knowledge of Medieval Arabic Music
• Chapter II. Investigations into Arabic Music :: Methods and Criteria Used in Determining its Structure :: Results Obtained
• Chapter III. Oriental Arabic Music :: its Origin and Development :: Social and Religious Prejudices Against Musicians :: these are Foreigners :: Persian and Byzantine Influences :: Primitive School of Song in Mecca, Medina, and Wadi-Al-Kura
• Chapter IV. Music at the Court of the Caliphs :: Damascus and Bagdad :: its Apogee at the Time of Harun-Al-Rashid :: the Great Classic Composers, Ibrahim Al-Mosuli and his Son Ishak
• Chapter V. Artists of the Classic School of the Mosulis :: Popular Music at the Court of the Caliphs :: a Musician of Noble Arabic Family
• Chapter VI. Decadence of Arabic Song in the Orient :: the Prince Ibrahim Bin Al-Mahdi :: Conflict Between Classicists and Decadents :: the Tomburists
• Chapter VII. Characteristics of Oriental Arabic Music :: Harmony, Rhythm, and Expression
• Chapter VIII. Form of Oriental Arabic Music :: Compass, Structure, and Length :: Classification :: Instruments
• Chapter IX. Oriental Music at the Palace of the Omay-Yads of Cordova :: Ziryab and His School
• Chapter X. Wide Diffusion of Arabic Music in Moslem Spain
• Chapter XI. Spanish Composers of Music :: New Andalusian Form Which Grew Popular There and Spread To North Africa and the Orient
• Chapter XII. Arab Music in Christian Spain :: at the Court of the Kings and in the Popular Festivals :: the Christian Population Accepts the Lyric Models of the Moors of Andalusia :: Arab Songs Grow Popular in the Christian Portions of the Peninsula
• Chapter XIII. the “Cancionero De Palacio” :: the Zejel of the “Three Little Moorish Maidens” :: Songs of the Spanish Christians of the Middle Ages
• Chapter XIV. the “Cantigas” of Alfonso the Wise :: Fruitless Attempts To Interpret the Manuscripts of the “Cantigas” and the Secular Music of the Thirteenth Century
• Chapter XV. Our Interpretation of the “Cantigas” :: the Metrical Structure Corresponds to the Lyric System of the Spanish Moors
• Chapter XVI. the Rhythmic System of the Music in the “Cantigas” Corresponds To the Classification Made By Al-Mosuli of Oriental Arab Songs
• Chapter XVII. the “Cantigas” Have a Complete and Regularly Formed Harmonic System, Such as Might have been in Use in Oriental Music
• Chapter XVIII. Tonality in the “Cantigas” :: Modulation :: Major and Minor :: Melody :: Expression
• Chapter XIX. Classification of the Melodies of the “Cantigas” :: Their Chronology :: the Andalusian Musician Employed by Alfonso the Wise to Preserve the Music of the “Cantigas”
• Chapter XX. Can the Method of Interpretation Used in the “Cantigas” Help to Reveal the Troubadours’ Music?
• Chapter XXI. General Observations in Regard To the Transcriptions and the Performance of the Music of the “Cantigas”
• Appendix: Songs from Las Cantigas
• Index