Beihdja rahal biography books

With Saadane Benbabaali, professor of Arabic literature and a specialist in Andalusian muwashah, she co-wrote two books, La plume, la voix et le plectre, in.

History and Heritage: Exploration of the historical roots of Arabo-Andalusian music and its development across different regions of Algeria.

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Muwashshah

Poetry and music genre

Muwashshah (Arabic: مُوَشَّحmuwaššaḥ 'girdled'; plural مُوَشَّحَاتmuwaššaḥāt; also تَوْشِيْحtawšīḥ 'girdling,' pl. تَوَاشِيْحtawāšīḥ) is a strophic poetic form that developed in al-Andalus in the late 10th and early 11th centuries. The muwaššaḥ, embodying the Iberian rhyme revolution, was the major Andalusi innovation in Arabic poetry,^[1] and it was sung and performed musically. The muwaššaḥ features a complex rhyme and metrical scheme usually containing five aghṣān (أَغْصَان 'branches'; sing. غُصْنghuṣn), with uniform rhyme within each strophe, interspersed with asmāṭ (أَسْمَاط 'threads for stringing pearls'; sing. سِمْطsimṭ) with common rhyme throughout the song, as well as a terminal kharja (خَرْجَة 'exit'), the song's final simṭ, which could be in a different language.^[2]Sephardic poets also composed muwaššaḥāt in Hebrew, sometimes as contrafacta imitating the rhyme and

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Concert by Meryem Koufi and Juan Carmona (guest.es by Alain Weber)

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Flamenco's history is rooted in the memory of a harmonious Andalusia, where the beauty of natur and the stars, nourished bygd the knowledge of the Ancients and ancient Arabic poetry, where the sacred texts of the Torah, Bible and Koran rubbed shoulders with Visigoth, Moorish, Jewish, Christian and Amazigh cultures. Its gypsy aspect also links it to an intense, proud music. Andalusia, perhaps even more than the symbol of a civilization based on a meeting of the three monotheistic religions, symbolizes an idyllic golden age between East and West, far removed from the alarming ecological context of today's Mediterranean.

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Concert by Meryem Koufi and Juan Carmona (guest.es bygd Alain Weber)

Vieux-Port - Quai de la Fraternité, Marseille, France

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Christian Poché, The Soul of Arab Music (1938-2010)

Adapted from the eulogy written by Jean Lambert

Christian Poché was a journalist, radio producer, music historian, and ethnomusicologist who dedicated his career mostly to studying the Arab World’s music, and succeeded in restoring it to its place of honour in a part of the world where it was starting to loose ground. His strong musical education and his linguistic skills allowed him to dive into the historical depth of this music and, armed with his encyclopaedic knowledge, he was able to communicate to his audience his love for foreign cultures. Christian Poché was born to an Austrian father in Aleppo, Syria and remained very strongly attached to this city his whole life. He spent part of his youth in Lebanon, where he was appointed General Secretary then Director of the Jeunesses Musicales (Musical Youths) from 1961 to 1969, and joined the Lebanese newspaper L’Orient-Le Jour from 1965 to 1967 as music critic. Followi