Andalusia

Collection title

In Zyriab's Tracks

ID

EPT00270

Source

EPTV (DZ)

First broadcast date

08/17/2010

Production year

2010

Abstract

Abu Al-Hassan Ali ben Nafi, also known as Zyriab ( 789-857) was born in Mossul, Iraq, and died in Cordoba. He studied and developed his talents of singer and musician in Baghdad. After a short stay in Tunisia, he settled in Cordoba in 822 in the court of the Omeyad Emir Abd al Rahmane II. He was one of the main figures in the history of the Arab-Andalusian music in the 9th century. He introduced the Oud ( arabic luth ) after he had added a fifth string. It is the luth which later spread all over Europe. Through several halts, the journalist Abdelkrim Sekkar introduces the arab music and its influences on western one. This episode stops in Andalusia, Spain.

Type

video

Production companies

• EPTV - Own production

Broadcaster

EPTV - 1st national channel

Audiovisual form

Magazine

Primary theme

Music and songs

Credits / Cast

• Sekkar Abdelkrim - Journalist

Period of events

• From 500 to 1000

Map locations

• Spain - South - Andalusia

Original language

Arabic

Media running time

29m20

Additional information