Re: Nusach Sepharard vs. Nusach Edot HaMizrach

[Moshe Denburg <denburg...>]

Owen Davidson wrote:
>
>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.

Not only that, but the term 'el oud' (the oud) is a precursor of the
European 'Lute'. The musical worlds of North Africa, Spain, and Europe have
many historical connections.

All the best,

Moshe Denburg