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Informationen zum Autor Dwight F. Reynolds is Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of numerous publications, including the co-editorship of our own award-winning The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 6: The Middle East , published in 2002, with Virginia Danielson and Scott Marcus. Klappentext The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. This volume presents the documentation that has come down to us, accompanied by critical and detailed analyses of the sources written in Arabic, Old Catalan, Castilian, Hebrew, and Latin. It is also informed by research the author has conducted on modern Andalusian musical traditions in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria. While the cultural achievements of medieval Muslim Spain have been the topic of a large number of scholarly and popular publications in recent decades, what may arguably be its most enduring contribution - music - has been almost entirely neglected. The overarching purpose of this work is to elucidate as clearly as possible the many different types of musical interactions that took place in medieval Iberia and the complexity of the various borrowings, adaptations, hybridizations, and appropriations involved. Zusammenfassung The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Chapter 3 – From the conquest to the reign of ‘Abd al-Ra?man II, 711–822 Chapter 4 – ‘Abd al-Ra?man II and Ziryab, 822–852 Chapter 5 – The final years of the Caliphate, 858–1031 Section Three: Music in the Medieval Mediterranean Chapter 6 – Instrumentarium Chapter 7 – Music Theory and Performance Practices Section Four: The Musical Revolution in al-Andalus Chapter 8 – From ?awt to Muwashsha? Chapter 9 – Hebrew Muwashsha?at 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.) ...
