Andalusian classical music (Arabic: طرب أندَلُسي, trans. ṭarab andalusi, Spanish: música andalusí) is a style of Moorish music found across North Africa in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. It originates out of the music of Al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia) between the 9th and 15th centuries.
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“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance—Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, for instance, is always greater than its performance—whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being performed.”
—André Previn (b. 1929)
“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance—Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, for instance, is always greater than its performance—whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being performed.”
—André Previn (b. 1929)
“And this shall be for music when no one else is near,
The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear!
That only I remember, that only you admire,
Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)