"Actor: The Albacyn Ensemble"

• Nawba Mamum - The Albacyn Ensemble | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-16.99 (-170.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Arab-Andalousian music is characterised by rhythm and velocity. This type of music is based on four types of rhythm: hejej ramel first takil second takil; 'velocity distinguishes the different varieties of rhythm and this depends more on the subject matter of the words than the quantity of the syllables. This form of music evolved in the Iberian peninsula and which was exiled to North Africa when Grenada fell in 1492. Arabs considered any form of music to be immoral and dishones