What are some important facts about music in the medieval Arab world? (Answers may vary.)
What will be an ideal response?
• "Works written between the ninth and thirteenth centuries . . . considered the scientific nature of music from its importance in the universe, to the measurement of pitch intervals, to the construction of musical instruments . . ."
• Musical life in medieval Baghdad (in Iraq, formerly Mesopotamia) was described through the writings of Al-Isbahani whose many anecdotes about music reveal "the complex position of music and musicians in medieval Baghdad."
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