Kouitra
In Algeria, as throughout the Maghreb, we continue to call Arab musical art Andalusian music, in preference to a decisive stage of its evolution.
It is the heritage of a long tradition which, from Baghdad to Cordoba, from Cordoba to Granada, then from Granada to Tlemcen, Algiers, Bougie, Constantine, has found itself so perfectly assimilated, individualized, personalized since the tragic ebb of the Muslims of Spain.
This music appears, without doubt, as the national music, the classical music of Algeria.
The most glorious of his instruments is the lute. We can also cite the rebab and the kuitra.
Of Andalusian origin, the kouitra is a kind of guitar with a full-bodied resonance box, made of light wood, made up of ten ribs and a neck.
Its soundboard, made of strips of light wood (maple or fir), is openworked towards the middle with a design representing a vase of flowers.
Used only in Algeria, particularly in Tlemcen and Algiers, the kuitra, a delicate instrument with melodious sounds, has become rare like the rebab.
It is the heritage of a long tradition which, from Baghdad to Cordoba, from Cordoba to Granada, then from Granada to Tlemcen, Algiers, Bougie, Constantine, has found itself so perfectly assimilated, individualized, personalized since the tragic ebb of the Muslims of Spain.
This music appears, without doubt, as the national music, the classical music of Algeria.
The most glorious of his instruments is the lute. We can also cite the rebab and the kuitra.
Of Andalusian origin, the kouitra is a kind of guitar with a full-bodied resonance box, made of light wood, made up of ten ribs and a neck.
Its soundboard, made of strips of light wood (maple or fir), is openworked towards the middle with a design representing a vase of flowers.
Used only in Algeria, particularly in Tlemcen and Algiers, the kuitra, a delicate instrument with melodious sounds, has become rare like the rebab.