Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Yegah Musicology Journal, cilt.8, sa.1, ss.705-724, 2025 (Scopus)
This article examines the contributions to musical culture of the Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities that coexisted in Andalusia for seven centuries. Andalusia provided a multicultural environment in which Islamic, Christian and Jewish traditions fused, and this interaction significantly influenced the development of music and poetry. Arab-Andalusian music is particularly known for its unique verse and music genres such as the Muwashshah and the Zajel. These genres were influential not only in the Iberian Peninsula but also in North Africa and Europe, shaping medieval European poetry and music. Muvashshah is a genre of poetry that emerged in Andalusia in the 10th century and has a musical structure that blends different languages such as Arabic-Romance and Hebrew. Zajel, on the other hand, is a more popular and colloquial form, developed especially by poets such as Ibn Kuzman. Both genres reflect the multicultural nature of al-Andalus and contributed to the emergence of troubadour poetry in Western European literature. The development of the Andalusian school of music became more systematized, especially with the contributions of musicians such as Ziryab, and spread from court music to folk music. Andalusian music had a great impact on the understanding of music not only in the Islamic world but also in Europe and became an important art form reflecting the cultural interaction of Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities. This interaction left lasting traces on forms such as Mozarab music, Sephardic music and the Castilian villancico genre. As a result, Andalusian music and literature functioned as a bridge between Islamic and Western cultures and became one of the most important elements of artistic and cultural interaction throughout the Middle Ages.