Arab music in Europe

Well, that makes a lot of sense to me...consider that the word lute
came from la oud, for example, and that the Arabs were in Spain for
hundreds of years. We really hear the Arabic influence in Flamenco, to
be sure...it's an interesting subject...Hstick

Hi Neil,

> From: Neil Haverstick <STICK@USWEST.NET>
> To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 7:39 AM
> Subject: [tuning] Arab music in Europe
>
>
> Well, that makes a lot of sense to me...consider that the word lute
> came from la oud, for example, and that the Arabs were in Spain for
> hundreds of years. We really hear the Arabic influence in Flamenco, to
> be sure...it's an interesting subject...Hstick

Yes, but not only Spain!! The Arab Muslims had control of
Sicily and southern Italy for quite a while also. While
searching for a webpage about "Dramsam", the group I saw in
Italy, I found an ensemble which plays medieval Sicilian music
and actually has an Arabic name:

http://www.promomusic.it/emain.htm
>> Al Qantarah, by the way, is the name of a river in
>> eastern Sicily, and means "bridge" in Arabic.

And there's also strong Muslim influence, via the Ottoman Empire,
in the cultural life of the Balkans, in what is now Bulgaria,
Romania, Serbia, Bosnia, and Albania.

love / peace / harmony ...

-monz
http://www.monz.org
"All roads lead to n^0"

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