Arab Music

Summary CV

Amin Chaachoo is a musician and musicologist. First Prize of Andalusian Music, Diploma of Andalusî Music and Andalusî Violin and Honor Prize of Andalusî Music by the Conservatory of Music of Tetuán, Diploma of Expert in Ethnomusicology by the Acena Academy of Malaga, Degree in Hispanic Language and Literature by the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences, from Tetuán, with a thesis on « Las jarchas » and a Master’s in French Literature with a thesis on « Semiology of Andalusî music ». Doctor with a thesis  about «Aesthetics, Philosophy and Metaphysics of the music of al-Andalus ». First International Prize for Andalusî and Moorish Studies Villa de Frigiliana 2011 (Malaga), Gold Medal of the Intercultural Hispanic-Arab Circle of Madrid, 2019. Founding Director of the Tetuán-Asmir Center for Musicological Research and Founder of the Andalusî Music Orchestra of Malaga. First violin of the Andalusî Orchestra of Tetuán. Author of several works on Andalusî music, in Arabic, Spanish and French.

Amin Chaachoo is the first researcher to cover the theory of Andalusî music, from the fall of al-Andalus until today.

BOOKS

– Al-mūsīqā al-andalusiyya al-maghribiyya, al-Āla(en árabe). Almuzara, Córdoba, 2011.

– La Música Andalusí – al-Ála. Historia – Conceptos – Teoría musical. Almuzara, Córdoba, 2011.

– La musique hispano-arabe, al-Ala. L’Harmattan, Paris, 2016.

– Al-Qawà`id annadhariyya lilmousiqa al-Andaloussiyya al-Maghribiyya, al-Ala, Tétouan, 2019.

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH

• Creating Corpora for Computational Research in Arab-Andalusian Music (Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
  https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2660168.2660182

PUBLICATIONS

• L’utilisation des techniques d’interprétation instrumentale occidentale dans la Musique Andalouse, Journal de l’Association des Amateurs de la Musique Andalouse au Maroc, Casablanca, 2010.
• El Himno Nacional y la Música Andalusí. Revista “El secreto del olivo”, 08/2011.
• La Música Andalusí y su destino en Marruecos. Cuadernos de Etnomusicología, 12/2011.
• Las características de la Música Morisca. Revista de la Facultad de Letras, Tetuán., 11/2011.
• Computacional Ethnomusicology: a study of Flamenco and Arab-Andalusian Music vocal music, en Springer handbook of systematic musicology, 2018.

DISCOGRAPHY

• Benamin. 2006.
• Alminares mediterraneos. Caravasar 2007.
• Músicas de la memoria. Aljama. 2007.
• Contradanza. 2007.
• De nómadas y medinas. Samarcanda. 2009.