New directions in the study of medieval Andalusi music

• Reynolds, Dwight F. ^[1]
  1. [1] University of California System

     University of California System

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, ISSN-e 1754-6567, ISSN 1754-6559, Vol. 1, Nº. 1, 2009, págs. 37-51
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The study of medieval Arabo‐Andalusian music has recently begun to play a more prominent role in medieval Iberian Studies. New directions have begun to open up and the field is currently moving forward using multiple new approaches. Important medieval texts, previously thought lost, have surfaced in recent decades creating a new body of evidence for scholars to interpret. In addition, a number of already well‐known texts are now being re‐evaluated from a musicological, rather than a purely literary, standpoint and are revealing significant new insights about the musical cultures of medieval Iberia. Painstaking research in a variety of different archives and collections has begun to offer a more detailed sense of the context of medieval musical performances, the lives of performers, their economic and social status, and so forth. And comparative studies across historical time periods and regional traditions are providing radical new interpretations of the history of certain musical structures, modes of transmission, and individual repertories.

    The present survey offers an overview of recently published research in the field of medieval Arabo‐Andalusian music and sketches out a variety of new lines of research that are currently, or should be, followed by future scholars.