The Arab Contribution to Western Music
About the Show
Nimet Habachy, lecturer and author
Simon Shaheen, violinist and oudist
Without the brilliant, sophisticated music that informed the courts of Cairo, Baghdad, and Damascus, European music as we know it today would be quite different. Arabic music traveled west with Jewish troubadours and took root in Moorish Spain.
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