Influencias del rebec europeo sobre el rabel hispánico a finales de la Edad Media en la Corona de Aragón

Abstract

In medieval Europe, the Western rebec emerged and developed as a result of the cross between the byzantine lyre and the moorish rabab. Nevertheless, several iconographical sources point out that this rebec was extraneous to the Spanish music -at least in the ancient Crown of Aragon- until the middle of the 15th-century: in its place we find a kind of rabel tightly related to the moorish rabab. Starting from written documents and iconographical sources, this article shows how the contacts between the Western rebec and the Spanish rabel had alredy started in the Crown of Aragon in the second half of the 14th-century (or at least during the first half of the 15th-century).