Morisca Music and Grieving in Pérez de Hita’s Guerra de los moriscos

Abstract

Morisca Music and Grieving in Pérez de Hita’s Guerra de los moriscos

Notes

1 Rebecca Saunders, Lamentation and Modernity in Literature, Philosophy, and Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 46.

2 Sebastián de Covarrubias, Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española, ed. Ignacio Arellano & Rafael Zafra (Madrid: Iberoamericana/Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 2006), 777; my emphasis.

3 Covarrubias, Tesoro de la lengua, ed. Arellano & Zafra, 777.

4 Covarrubias, Tesoro de la lengua, ed. Arellano & Zafra, 777. Pelamesa is defined in the Diccionario de Autoridades in terms of conflict involving hair-pulling or messing hair. See Real Academia Española, Diccionario de Autoridades (1726–1739), Vol. V (1737). The dictionary is available online at <https://webfrl.rae.es/DA.html> (accessed 13 January 2021).

5 Covarrubias, Tesoro de la lengua, ed. Arellano & Zafra, 777.

6 See Diccionario de Autoridades, Vol. III (1732), s.v. ‘Eclipsis’.

7 Covarrubias, Tesoro de la lengua, ed. Arellano & Zafra, 777–78; emphasis in the original.

8 Cited in Jennifer E. Jacobs, ‘Ululation in Levantine Society: The Cultural Reproduction of an Affective Vocalization’, Doctoral dissertation (University of Pennsylvania, 2008), 38.

9 Miguel de Cervantes, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (Parte II), ed. Tom Lathrop (Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 1998), II, 23, 579–80; my emphasis.

10 See Jacobs, ‘Ululation in Levantine Society’.

11 Leor Halevi, ‘Wailing for the Dead: The Role of Women in Early Islamic Funerals’, Past & Present, 183:1 (2004), 3–40 (p. 4).

12 Saunders, Lamentation and Modernity, 48. See also Edward Westermarck, Ritual and Belief in Morocco (London: Macmillan, 1926), 518.

13 See Margaret Alexiou, The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge U. P., 1974); and Gail Holst-Warhaft, Dangerous Voices: Women’s Laments and Greek Literature (London: Routledge, 1992).

14 ‘Table X (Religion)’, cited in Ronald Mellor, The Historians of Ancient Rome: An Anthology of the Major Writings (London: Routledge, 2012), 4.

15 Covarrubias, Tesoro de la lengua, ed. Arellano & Zafra, 777.

16 Antonio de Sosa & Diego de Haedo, Topographia e historia general de Argel (Valladolid: Diego Fernandez de Cordova y Oviedo, 1612), 41^r.

17 De Sosa & De Haedo, Topographia e historia, 41^r; my emphasis.

18 De Sosa & De Haedo, Topographia e historia, 41^r.

19 María Antonia Garcés, ‘Introduction’, in An Early Modern Dialogue with Islam. Antonio de Sosa’s ‘Topography of Algiers’ (1612), ed. María Antonia Garcés, trans. Diana de Armas Wilson (Notre Dame: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2011), 1–78 (p. 47).

20 Antonio de Sosa, ‘Topography of Algiers’, in An Early Modern Dialogue with Islam, ed. Garcés, trans. De Armas Wilson, 251–52.

21 Ginés Pérez de Hita, Segunda parte de las guerras civiles de Granada, y de los crueles vandos, e entre los convertidos moros y vezinos christianos: con el levantamiento de todo el reyno; y ultima rebelion, sucedida en el año de mil quinientos y sesenta y ocho (Madrid: E. Bailly-Baillière, 1913). References to this text will be provided parenthetically within the main body of the article.

22 See María Soledad Carrasco Urgoiti, The Moorish Novel: ‘El Abencerraje’ and Pérez de Hita (Boston: Twayne, 1976); and Mary B. Quinn, The Moor and the Novel: Narrating Absence in Early Modern Spain (New York/Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

23 Diego de Guadix, Recopilación de algunos nombres arábigos que los árabes pusieron a algunas ciudades y otras muchas cosas, ed., intro., notas & índices de Elena Bajo Pérez & Felipe Maíllo Salgado (Gijón: Ediciones Trea, 2005), 192.

24 Luis de Avilés, ‘Los suspiros del “Abencerraje” ’, Hispanic Review, 71:4 (2003), 453–72.

25 See H. G. Farmer, ‘Ṣandj’, in Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, ed. P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C. E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel & W. P. Heinrichs (available at <https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_1000> [accessed 16 January 2021]); and Thomas D. Rossing Science of Percussion Instruments (Hackensack: World Scientific Publishing, 2000), 182–83.

26 Vicenzo Galilei, Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music, trans., with intro. & notes, by Claude V. Palisca (New Haven: Yale U. P., 2003 [1^st Italian ed. 1581]), 327–28.

27 See Federico Corriente, El léxico árabe andalusí según P. de Alcalá (Madrid: Univ. Complutense, 1988), 120; Farmer, ‘Ṣandj’, in Encyclopaedia of Islam, ed. Bearman et al.; Mika Paraskeva, Entre la música y el eros: artes y vida de las cantoras en el Oriente medieval según ‘El libro de las canciones’ (‘Kitāb al-agānī’) (Granada: Univ. de Granada, 2017), 186–87; and An Annotated Glossary of Arabic Musical Terms, compiled by Lois Ibsen al-Faruqi (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1981), 294–95.

28 George Dimitri Sawa, Musical and Socio-Cultural Anecdotes from ‘Kitāb Al-Aghānī Al-Kabīr’: Annotated Translations and Commentaries (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 63–64.

29 See Quinn, The Moor and the Novel; and María Soledad Carrasco Urgoiti, Los moriscos y Ginés Pérez de Hita (Barcelona: Bellaterra, 2006).

30 See Aristotle, Politics, trans. Ernest Barker & intro. R. F. Stalley (Oxford: Oxford U. P., 2009 [1^st ed. 1855]), 310; Plato, The Republic, trans. Desmond Lee, with an intro. by Melissa Lane (New York: Penguin, 2007), 94; and Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Oculta filosofía. Razones de la música en el hombre y la naturaleza, ed. Ramón Andrés (Barcelona: Acantilado, 2004), 46–47.

31 Deborah Kapchan, ‘Body’, in Keywords in Sound, ed. David Novak & Matt Sakakeeny (Durham, NC: Duke U. P., 2015), 33–44.

32 See Teréz Vincze, ‘The Phenomenology of Trauma: Sound and Haptic Sensuality in Son of Saul’, Film and Media Studies, 13 (2016), 107–26 (pp. 111–12); and Tim Recuber, ‘Immersion Cinema: The Rationalization and Reenchantment of Cinematic Space’, Space and Culture, 10:3 (2007), 315–30 (p. 323).

33 Nieremberg, Oculta filosofía, ed. Andrés, 47–48.

34 Aristotle, Politics, trans. Barker, 309.

35 Juan Luis Vives, The Passions of the Soul: The Third Book of ‘De Anima et Vita’, intro. & trans. Carlos G. Noreña (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990), 95–96.

36 Vives, The Passions of the Soul, trans. Noreña, 96.

37 Alejo Venegas, Agonía del tránsito de la muerte, con los avisos y consuelos, que acerca de ella son provechosos (Barcelona: Antonio Lacavallfria, 1682), 215 (accentuation for this quotation has been modernized by the author).

38 Venegas, Agonía del tránsito, 217.

39 Venegas, Agonía del tránsito, 218 & 216.

40 See Miguel Ángel Vázquez, ‘Alejo de Venegas’s Agonía del Tránsito de la Muerte: A Morisco Treatise on the Art of Dying?’, Medieval Encounters, 12:3 (2006), 475–86; and Álvaro Galmés de Fuentes, ‘Alejo de Venegas y la tradición morisca’, in Estudios románicos dedicados al Prof. Andrés Soria Ortega, recopilado por Jesús Montaya Martínez & Juan Paredes Núñez (Granada: Univ. de Granada, 1985), 1975–92.

41 Al-Ghazali, cited in Julián Ribera, Music in Ancient Arabia and Spain (Rochester, NY: St Vincent Press, 2014 [1^st ed. 1929]), 159.

42 Al-Ghazali, Music and Singing, trans. Duncan Black MacDonald (Selangor: Islamic Book Trust, 2009), 23.

43 See L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain: 1500 to 1614 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2005), 157; Mercedes García-Arenal & Fernando Rodríguez Mediano, The Orient in Spain: Converted Muslims, the Forged Lead Books of Granada, and the Rise of Orientalism (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 280 & 388.

44 Mayte Green-Mercado, Visions of Deliverance: Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Ithaca: Cornell U. P., 2020), 72–81.

45 Luis Mármol Carvajal, Historia del rebelión y castigo de los moriscos del reino de Granada, ed. & notas de Javier Castillo Fernández (Granada: Univ. de Granada, 2015), 141–56. See also Green-Mercado, Visions of Deliverance, 72–81.

46 See Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 185–92; Mancebo de Arévalo, Tratado [Tafsira], ed., intro. & notas de María Teresa Narváez Córdova (Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 2003), 51–55, 61–64, 93–95, 275–78 & 398–402; Mercedes García-Arenal, Los moriscos (Madrid: Editora Nacional, 1975), 125–33; Miguel de Cervantes, Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, ed., con intro., de Carlos Romero Muñoz (Madrid: Cátedra, 2004 [1^st ed. 1997]); and Pérez de Hita, Segunda parte de las guerras civiles de Granada, 97–98.

47 Saunders, Lamentation and Modernity, 50.

48 ‘In festivities and public entertainments our sadness is repressed inside and grows by contrast with its opposite … When we think that others are not at all affected by our grief, we become indignant, and feel sorry for ourselves’ (Vives, The Passions, trans. Noreña, 97).

49 Mercedes García-Arenal, Inquisición y moriscos: los procesos del Tribunal de Cuenca (Madrid: Siglo Veintiuno, 1978), 78.

50 García-Arenal, Inquisición y moriscos, 78.

51 ‘When some happy event befalls us and is accompanied by some sound or voice, we are delighted when we hear the same sound again. If it is a sad event, we feel sad’ (Juan Luis Vives, cited in D. J. Murray & Helen E. Ross, ‘Vives [1538] on Memory and Recall’, Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne, 23:1 [1982], 22–31 [p. 28]).

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