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Definition: nouba
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We owe this "nouba" to Arabic. The nouba is an instrumental and vocal suite with a crescendo rhythm. A note from an institute in Montpellier indicates that the word, literally "in turn", refers to the fact that the musician waited behind a curtain to be called by the master of ceremonies. The term then expanded to refer to an orchestra or brass band. It was brought into French by the French army in Algeria, which turned it into slang for a party.
, our nouba evokes a memorable tradition: Arab-Andalusian music, conceived at a time when part of present-day Spain was Muslim, coexisting more or less peacefully with Catholics.