Arabic music
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Arabic music is the music of the Arab world with all its diverse music styles and genres. Arabic countries have many rich and varied styles of music and also many linguistic dialects, with each countr
An 8th-century Umayyad fresco from Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi, Syria.
Lute Song. 13th-century, Al Andalus
Musicians in Ottoman Aleppo, 18th century. A Turk beats the daf, a Christian plays tanboor, a Dervish plays ney, a Christian plays kamangi and the fifth man beats on nakara.
Umm Kulthum
Arabic maqam
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In traditional Arabic music, maqam is the system of melodic modes. The word maqam in Arabic means place, location or position. The Arabic maqam is a melody type. It is "a technique of improvisation" t
Arabic music
…the lute or the rebab, and perform the songs while respecting the poetic metre. The compositions were simple and every singer would sing in a single maqam. Among the notable songs of the period were the huda (from which the ghina derived), the nasb, sanad, and rukbani. Both compositions and improvisations…
Maqāma 21, Maqamat al Harari, 1237
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