Medieval Arab Music and Musicians

Three Translated Texts
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-50151-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 495 g

Reihe: Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

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 Ibrahim al-Mawsili from al-Isbahani’s Kitab al-Aghani (10th c), the biography of the musician Ziryab from Ibn Hayyan’s Kitab al-Muqtabis (11th c), and the earliest treatise on the muwashshah Andalusi song genre, Dar al-Tiraz, by the Egyptian scholar Ibn Sana’ al-Mulk (13th c).

Al-Mawsili, the most famous musician of his era, was also the teacher of the legendary Ziryab, 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 muwashshah and its possible relations to the Troubadours, the Cantigas de Santa María, and the Andalusi musical traditions of the modern Middle East.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reynolds, Dwight

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

part 1: The Biography of Ibrahim al-Mawsili

Introduction

The Biography of Ibrahim al-Mawsili

[Kitab al-aghani, Vol. V – 1964 rpt. of Dar al-Kutub Edition, pp. 154–258]

Ibrahim al-Mawsili’s Genealogy and Various Anecdotes about Him

part 2: The Biography of Ziryab

Introduction

The Biography of 'Ali ibn Nafi', Known as Ziryab

[Ibn Hayyan, Kitab al-muqtabis: al-Sifr al-Thani (al-Riyad: 2003), pp. 307–335]

On Singing: Information about Ziryab, the Greatest Singer of the Land of al-Andalus

part 3: Ibn Sana' al-Mulk’s Dar al-Tiraz

Introduction

Contents of Dar al-Tiraz fi 'Amal al-Muwashshahat

[The House of Brocade on the Composition of Muwashshahat]

The House of Brocade on the Composition of Muwashshahat

[Dar al-tiraz fi 'amal al-muwashshahat] by Ibn Sana' al-Mulk (c. 1155–1212)

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dwight Reynolds, Ph.D. (1991), is professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published monographs and articles on Arabic literature, folklore, and music including The Musical Heritage of al-Andalus (Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2020).