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.
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Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides): Córdoba, 1204 AD Return
Jews and Conversos were an object of Iberian racial hatred, a view
commonly found in Christianity (Catholicism and Lutheranism). Jews
were the object of pogroms and the object of Crusader's ideological
views of Iberian "Chivalry". This ideological viewpoint was
expressed in church art, church sculpture, church music (the
anti-Semitic views of Hildegardis Bingensis or Hildegard von Bingen),
etc. Not surprisingly, Jews were demonized. Even now, Jews are often
asked to be examined to determine what Jewish "horns" look like.
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