the musical heritage of al-andalus
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:Section One: Music in Iberia and the Mashriq up to 711; Chapter 1 –Music in Iberia to 711 ; Chapter 2 – Arab music to 711 ; Section Two:Andalusi Music to the Fall of the Umayyad Caliphate, 711 1031; Chapter3 – From the conquest to the reign of ‘Abd al-Ra�mān II, 711–822 ;Chapter 4 – ‘Abd al-Ra�mān II and Ziryāb, 822–852; Chapter 5 – Thefinal years of the Caliphate, 858–1031 ; Section Three: Music in theMedieval Mediterranean; Chapter 6 – Instrumentarium ; Chapter 7 –Music Theory and Performance Practices ; Section Four: The MusicalRevolution in al-Andalus ; Chapter 8 – From �awt to Muwashsha� ;Chapter 9 – Hebrew Muwashsha�āt ; Section Five: Post-Umayyad Iberia
(11th
17th
c.) ; Chapter 10 – The Era of the "Petty Kings," Almoravids, and
Almohads (11th
–12th
c.) ; Chapter 11 – The Age of Minstrels (13th
–15th
c.) ; Chapter 12 – Music of the Moriscos (16th–17th
c.) ;
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The Musical Heritage ofAl-AndalusDwight Reynolds
Series: SOAS Studies in Music
The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account ofthe history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamicconquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos(Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17
th
century.It presents the documentations, accompanied by criticalanalyses of the sources written in Arabic, Old Catalan,Castilian, Hebrew, and Latin along with beinf informed byauthor's research on modern Andalusian musical traditionsin Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria.The overarching purpose of this work is to elucidatedifferent types of musical interactions that took place inmedieval Iberia.
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