321.71 (Instruments in which sound is produced by one or more vibrating strings, in which the resonator and string bearer are physically united and can not be separated without destroying the instrument, in which the strings run in a plane parallel to the sound table, in which the strings are sounded using a bow)
Developed
Developed in Andalusian Spain/North Africa, likely applying a bow to a plucked lute with a skin soundboard, such as a rubab or gambus or an earlier oud or barbat
Related instruments
rebec
Byzantine lyra
gadulka
gambus
gudok
Pontian lyra
lijerica
Calabrian lira
Cretan lyra
rabel
The Maghreb rebab or Maghrebi rebab is a bowed lute now played mainly in Northern Africa. It fits within the wider rebab traditions of the Arab world, but also branched into European musical tradition in Spain, Sicily, and the Holy Roman Empire. In the late Middle Ages, the European rebec developed from this instrument (and from the related Byzantine lyra).[2] The Maghreb rebab was described by a musicologist as the "predominant" rebab of North Africa, although the instrument was in decline with younger generations when that was published in 1984.[1]
The name rebáb (rabáb, rabába, rubáb, Arabic ربابة) refers to a group of significantly different stringed instruments, plucked or bowed lutes in regions under the influence of Islam. In North-West Africa and Al-Andalus in the Iberian Peninsula, a short-necked lute played with a bow was developed. It survives today as part of Andalusi classical music.
^ abSadie, Stanley, ed. (1984). "Rabāb, section 3, short necked fiddles". The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. pp. 180–181. Volume 3.
^Sadie, Stanley, ed. (1984). "Rebec". The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. p. 201. Volume 3.
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