Music in the Dīwān of Samuel ha-Nagid

The dīwān (book of poems) of the eleventh-century polymath and Hebrew poet of Granada, Samuel ha-Nagid, contains unexpected musical aspects. This article reveals a formerly unknown comment by the poet’s son, which indicates that the shorter poems of the book were all set to music and performed in th...

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1. VerfasserIn: Ṿardi, Yehonatan (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2023
In: Medieval encounters
Jahr: 2023, Band: 29, Heft: 4, Seiten: 358-390
weitere Schlagwörter:B song-cycles
B medieval music
B Hebrew Poetry
B contrafactum
B Music
B nawba
B Andalusian music
B Samuel ha-Nagid
B Granada
B Jewish music
B al-Andalus
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Zusammenfassung:The dīwān (book of poems) of the eleventh-century polymath and Hebrew poet of Granada, Samuel ha-Nagid, contains unexpected musical aspects. This article reveals a formerly unknown comment by the poet’s son, which indicates that the shorter poems of the book were all set to music and performed in the poet’s court. The article discusses the implications of this discovery and its importance for understanding both ha-Nagid’s poetry and the musical practices of al-Andalus. Unique literary phenomena such as poem-cycles and “twin poems” that share similar structure are examined through their relations to the early Andalusian nawba (suite) and to the practice of composing contrafacta respectively.
ISSN:1570-0674
Enthält:Enthalten in: Medieval encounters
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700674-12340169