Re: Nusach Sepharard vs. Nusach Edot HaMizrach

[Owen Davidson <owend...>]

At 09:15 PM 2/19/98 -0800, Moshe Denburg wrote:
>You raise a very good point, imo, and it is a question I have been
>struggling with for some time. I am quite certain that, even though the
>music of Morocco, Tunisia and other Arabic speaking North African states has
>a lot in common with Arabic music in a wide sense, there are strong variants
>in these forms. But the Oud, for example, which is an Arabic musical
>instrument par excellence, is very much a part of the music of the
>aforementioned North African states, as well as other Arabic instruments. 

The oud exists to this day in Spain, where it is called "laud."  It's the
same narrow-necked, fretless, and often ornately decorated instrument used
throughout the Arabic world.  Its survival, however vestigial, in Spanish
music reminds us that Jewish culture in Spain was, until the expulsion, part
of the same cultural continuum in which Sephardic culture exists today.

Gut shabbos, all.

Owen 
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