Lamma bada yatathana is a famous Muashah that is famiiar in the entire arab world. A Muashah is the name for both an Arabic poetic form and a secular musical genre. Examples of muwashaḥ poetry start to appear as early as the 9th or 10th century. This tradition can take two forms: the wasla of Aleppo and the Andalusi nubah of the western part of the Arab world. Regarding the Analusian form Andalusian classical music was allegedly born in the Emirate of Cordoba (Al-Andalus) in the 9th century. The Persian musician, residing in Iraq, Ziryab (d. 857), who later became court musician of Abd al-Rahman II in Cordoba, is sometimes credited with its invention. Later, the poet, composer, and philosopher Ibn Bajjah (d. 1139) of Saragossa is said to have combined the style of Ziryâb with Western approaches to produce a wholly new style that spread across Iberia and North Africa. By the 11th century, Muslim Iberia had become a center for the manufacture of instruments. These goods spread gradually to Provence, influencing French troubadours and trouveres and eventually reaching the rest of Europe. The English words lute, rebec, guitar, and naker derive from the Arabic oud, rabab, qithara and naqareh, although some Arabic terms had been derived from the Greek and other cultures. The classical music of Andalusia, reached North Africa via centuries of cultural exchange, the Almohad dynasty and then the Marinid dynasty and the Abdalwadid being in power both in Al-Andalus and North Africa (the Maghreb region). Mass resettlements of Muslims and Sephardi Jews from Cordoba, Sevilla, Valencia, and Granada, fleeing the Reconquista, further expanded the reach of Andalusian music. Nowadays this music form is still perceived as exotic and fascinating. May be it is because it is the fruit of infusing multiple cultures together in a homegnous and beautiful way, Arab, Moorish, Persian, Byzantine, Spanish, and Jewish all cultural forms mixing together to produce such master pieces that we all enjoy
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 22:48:08 +0000
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