The Andalusi nūba

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1. Story
2. The suite tradition developed in al-Andalus between roughly the ninth and fifteenth centuries and surviving today not in Spain but across the Maghreb, under three regional names: ala in Morocco, ṣanʿa in Algeria and maʾlūf in Tunisia and Libya. A nūba is an ordered sequence of movements in a single mode, its sections running through fixed rhythmic cycles, sung to Andalusi strophic poetry — the muwashshaḥ and the zajal — with the ʿūd among its core instruments. Its history is the reason it belongs in a Journey about movement rather than a Journey about Spain. The conquest of Granada in 1492 and the expulsions that followed drove Andalusi Muslim and Jewish families, including its musicians, across the strait; the repertoire was carried to Fez, Tlemcen, Algiers, Tunis and elsewhere and maintained there by oral transmission and by songbooks, while in Iberia itself the institutional tradition ended. Jewish communities of the Maghreb, notably in the mellah of Fez, were among the transmitters. It is a case of a tradition surviving its homeland — and a caution against reading the Andalusi legacy in modern Spanish music too directly, since the continuous line runs south, not north.
3. Knowledge
4. Oud
5. The Andalusi nūba
6. Andalusia and al-Andalus
7. Connections
8. Andalusia and al-Andalus
9. Oud
10. Granada falls and the Andalusi repertoire crosses to the Maghreb
11. The Andalusi nūba
12. Córdoba
13. Ziryāb (Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Nāfiʿ)
14. Ziryāb arrives at the Umayyad court of Córdoba
15. A European lute is depicted in the Libro de los juegos
16. Granada falls and the Andalusi repertoire crosses to the Maghreb
17. Ngoni
18. European lute
19. The Andalusi nūba
20. Ziryāb arrives at the Umayyad court of Córdoba
21. A European lute is depicted in the Libro de los juegos
22. Granada falls and the Andalusi repertoire crosses to the Maghreb
23. Evidence
24. The Andalusi nūba tradition developed in al-Andalus between the ninth and fifteenth centuries and survives in the Maghreb as ala in Morocco, ṣanʿa in Algeria and maʾlūf in Tunisia and Libya, carried there by musicians and families displaced after 1492. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary blending this interview with encyclopaedic reference entries; the interview was not listened to or read in full and the attribution of each element to Reynolds specifically is not established.