Oye, hijo mío, el silencio. 

Es un silencio ondulado,
un silencio,
donde resbalan valles y ecos
y que inclinan las frentes
hacia el suelo.

Listen, my child, to the silence.
It is a silence that comes in waves,
a silence
where valleys and echoes slide
and brows incline
towards the ground.

El silencio, Federico Garcia Lorca

Music has to be one of the most enjoyable ways of bringing history to life.

Although the Muslim period in Spain officially ended in 1492 with the handover of the Granada emirate to the Castilians King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Islamic culture miraculously managed to survive, hidden in many forms, over the following five centuries. One of the ways that Muslim culture left its mark was through its influence on Spanish folk music.