TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reynolds,Dwight Fletcher
AU  - Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī,
AU  - Ibn Ḥayyān,Abū Marwān Ḥayyān ibn Khalaf
AU  - Ibn Sanāʼ al-Mulk,Hibat Allāh ibn Jaʻfar
TI  - Medieval Arab music and musicians: three translated texts 
T2  - Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures,
SN  - 9789004501515
U1  - 780.917/5927 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Nadīm al-Mawṣilī, Ibrāhīm ibn Māhān,
KW  - Ziryāb, ʻAlī ibn Nāfiʻ,
KW  - Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī,
KW  - Ibn Ḥayyān, Abū Marwān Ḥayyān ibn Khalaf,
KW  - Ibn Sanāʼ al-Mulk, Hibat Allāh ibn Jaʻfar,
KW  - Music
KW  - Arab countries
KW  - 500-1400
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Muwashshah
KW  - Musicians
KW  - Biography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--
ER  -