In Arabic Music, the mawwāl is a traditional and popular Arabic genre of vocal music that is very slow in beat and sentimental in nature, and is characterised by prolonging vowel syllables, emotional
The archetype of the instrument carried horizontally and struck with two sticks, found in iconographical documents in ancient Babylon (1600-911 BCE) and Neo-Assyria (911-612 BCE).
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
Mawwal
…In Arabic Music, the mawwāl (Arabic: موال; plural: mawāwīl, مواويـل) is a traditional and popular Arabic genre of vocal music that is very slow in beat and sentimental…
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.