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  • The orchestra's repertoire is limited: the Andalusian canon consists of 24 instrumental and vocal suites called nubas, each of which can take many hours to perform, and only 11 have survived the centuries intact.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • The orchestra's repertoire is limited: the Andalusian canon consists of 24 instrumental and vocal suites called nubas, each of which can take many hours to perform, and only 11 have survived the centuries intact.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • The orchestra's repertoire is limited: the Andalusian canon consists of 24 instrumental and vocal suites called nubas, each of which can take many hours to perform, and only 11 have survived the centuries intact.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • The orchestra's repertoire is limited: the Andalusian canon consists of 24 instrumental and vocal suites called nubas, each of which can take many hours to perform, and only 11 have survived the centuries intact.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • In his work, Kunnas (Songbook) are collected the poems that formed the base of the nubas (seven hundred and twenty-one poems). which he catalogued in eleven large families that have come to be the eleven nubas of present times.

    WeLove-music 2009

  • Al-Ha'ik did not transcribe the music, but indicated which out of 24 possible modalities was required, giving a principal and a secondary mode for each one of the nubas. he also annotated the rhythmic formulas that constitute the framework of the different movements of the eleven nubas that are preserved.

    WeLove-music 2009

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