Surat Mariam (medieval sicilian music)

Al Qantarah

This ensemble plays medieval Sicilian music. Al Qantarah is the name of a river in eastern Sicily and means "bridge" in Arabic. Sicily has long been a bridge to distant civilisations and since early times its culture has been shaped by the concurrent presence of Hellenic, Arabic and lastly, Norman influences. Al Qantarahs music evokes the sounds of that multiethnic island in sacred, lay and secular works, as they play on replicas of traditional medieval instruments of the Sicilian, Arabic and Persian traditions.

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Music

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• Al Qantarah
• Surat Mariam
• sicilian medieval music

[inhumanhyena]

@turk9570 ?? I thought they were North African Arabized Berbers, do you have a link that says they were Persian? By Arabic Sicily, I mean by the way that it was ruled by Arabized people who spoke Arabic and therefore Arabic was the official language of the Emirate. Please let me know about Persians in Sicily, I've never heard about this.

[turk9570]

@cavaglione1 rignusu!

[turk9570]

@cavaglione1 i will make sure that if i ever meet you in person, as a member of an ancient family in Sicily of imperial stock, i will make sure you will be punished for your transgressions. your family is from peasant stock and that is apparent by your illiteracy and ignorance!

[turk9570]

@rabbitsandlove1 go to school, get a degree then make your stupid comments, tu si nu vigliacco du prim ordine, turdunazzo!

[turk9570]

@inhumanhyena Sicily was never Arabic, the Muslims in Sicily were not of the Arabian peninsula, mostly persians of modern day Iran and from their holdings in the middle east

[globalsoundproject]

@turk9570 Ummmm, excuse me??

[inhumanhyena]

was this song really created in Arabic Sicily?

[turk9570]

@cavaglione1 your name should be caffone Arabo, don't tell me i am wrong idiot, i speak the language and it is no recitation of the Koran, musical instruments that are popular in the West were created primarily by Italian in the medieval period, including musical notation. Sicilians had a written history of music not the Muslims, did it ever occur to you that they may have place the recitation into a Sicilian song? maybe they recited the Koran when Muslims raped Sicilian women too. read a book

[turk9570]

@mbensaid1989 that is in your language, that is not what is being said at all in the Sicilian language because only a few thousand speak and understand the language and they are basically the old timers who were brought up in the fascist era.

[turk9570]

@NeonValentine give me solid examples of this north african influence, i speak the old Sicilian dialect, one of only a few thousand people that do in a region of millions. you can't, you only are dictated by propaganda and misinformation. the only african words in the Italian language are the words that all other non african countries know. the English have more africans and more african words in their language than Italians. are you going to say they were conquered by north africans too?