"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 Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī from al-Iṣbahānī's Kitāb al-Aghānī (10th c), the biography of the musician Ziryāb from Ibn Ḥayyān's Kitāb al-Muqtabis (11th c), and the earliest treatise on the muwashshaḥ Andalusi song genre, Dār al-Ṭirāz, by the Egyptian scholar Ibn Sanā' al-Mulk (13th c). 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 muwashshaḥ and its possible relations to the Troubadours, the Cantigas de Santa María, and the Andalusi musical traditions of the modern Middle East"--
Medieval Arab music and musicians
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Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī,897 or 898-967., Kitāb al-aghānī.
Ibn Ḥayyān, Abū Marwān Ḥayyān ibn Khalaf,987 or 988-1076., Muqtabas fī tārīkh al-Andalus., 2.
Ibn Sanāʼ al-Mulk, Hibat Allāh ibn Jaʻfar,1150 or 1151-1211 or 1212., Dār al-ṭirāz fī ʻamal al-muwashshaḥāt.
Nadīm al-Mawṣilī, Ibrāhīm ibn Māhān,742 or 743-803 or 804.
Ziryāb, ʻAlī ibn Nāfiʻ,active 9th century.
Ziryāb, ʻAlī ibn Nāfiʻ,active 9th century.
Kitāb al-aghānī (Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī)
Music-- Arab countries-- 500-1400-- History and criticism.
Music-- Middle East-- 500-1400-- History and criticism.
Musicians-- Arab countries, Biography.
Musicians-- Middle East, Biography.
Muwashshah-- History and criticism.
Music.
Musicians.
Muwashshah.
Arab countries.
Middle East.
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Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher,1956-
Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī,897 or 898-967.
Ibn Ḥayyān, Abū Marwān Ḥayyān ibn Khalaf,987 or 988-1076.
Ibn Sanāʼ al-Mulk, Hibat Allāh ibn Jaʻfar,1150 or 1151-1211 or 1212.