The music is Morisco music, found on Iberian Garden, Vol. 1 by
Altramar. The piece is Muwashshah: Mā li-l-muwallah, 1113-1198.
This music takes place at the beautiful gardens along the Guadalquiver, near Cordoba.
This is during the "convivencia" under Alfonso X (El Sabio - The Wise), the time
before Granda fell: when Christians, Moslems and Jews lived at peace with each
other. Muwashshah are songs in poetic form, with instrumental interludes in the
form of Ibn Bājja (Avempace): 1470-1520. This is Morisco art.
Ship canons usually fired broadside to broadside. However, sometimes
one ship could maneuver to fire canons along the prow to stern axis
of the enemy ship. When this took place, the attacking ship's canons
could fire serially, one canon after the other down the opponent ship,
raking prow to stern, while the opponent
ship's canons (at broadsides) were useless and could not return fire.
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