{"product_id":"medieval-arab-music-and-musicians-dwight-reynolds-9789004501515","title":"Medieval Arab Music and Musicians: Three Translated Texts","description":"\u003ci\u003eMedieval Arab Music and Musicians\u003c\/i\u003e offers complete, annotated English translations of three of the most important medieval Arabic texts on music and musicians: the biography of the musician Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī from al-Iṣbahānī's \u003ci\u003eKitāb al-Aghānī\u003c\/i\u003e (10th c), the biography of the musician Ziryāb from Ibn Ḥayyān's \u003ci\u003eKitāb al-Muqtabis\u003c\/i\u003e (11th c), and the earliest treatise on the \u003ci\u003emuwashshaḥ\u003c\/i\u003e Andalusi song genre, \u003ci\u003eDār al-Ṭirāz\u003c\/i\u003e, by the Egyptian scholar Ibn Sanā' al-Mulk (13th c).\u003cbr\u003e Al-Mawṣilī, the most famous musician of his era, was also the teacher of the legendary Ziryāb, 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 \u003ci\u003emuwashshaḥ\u003c\/i\u003e and its possible relations to the Troubadours, the \u003ci\u003eCantigas de Santa Mar?\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Andalusi musical traditions of the modern Middle East.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dwight Reynolds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9004501517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789004501515\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/17\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Dwight Reynolds","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43993243615487,"sku":"9789004501515","price":119.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_11529efa-cd0d-41cc-85f2-dd5a5b182cf9.jpg?v=1683323309","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/medieval-arab-music-and-musicians-dwight-reynolds-9789004501515","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}