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... melodic motifs, and large-scale melodic movement, there would be no way to tell the difference between Bach and Tchaikovsky, since both use the same diatonic scales in their compositions. In fact, the material presented here will not go as far as I would like in characterizing melodic content, but ...
... melodic motifs, and large-scale melodic movement, there would be no way to tell the difference between Bach and Tchaikovsky, since both use the same diatonic scales in their compositions. In fact, the material presented here will not go as far as I would like in characterizing melodic content, but ...
Untitled - Brooklyn Arts Council
... was Rai music – both from Algeria (such as Cheb Khaled) and from Northeastern Morocco, like the Oujda-based group Bouchmak, but he expanded his repertoire to encompass his audience’s tastes, playing Moroccan sha’abi, rai, khaligi (Arabian gulf music), Egyptian and Levantine classics and hits. Bohsi ...
... was Rai music – both from Algeria (such as Cheb Khaled) and from Northeastern Morocco, like the Oujda-based group Bouchmak, but he expanded his repertoire to encompass his audience’s tastes, playing Moroccan sha’abi, rai, khaligi (Arabian gulf music), Egyptian and Levantine classics and hits. Bohsi ...
Improvisation - WordPress.com
... organized sound to exist on a continuum between “recitation” and “music,” from khandan to musiqi, they have rationalized different types of sound as more or less acceptable. This definition of musiqi is actually narrower than music in the West. ...
... organized sound to exist on a continuum between “recitation” and “music,” from khandan to musiqi, they have rationalized different types of sound as more or less acceptable. This definition of musiqi is actually narrower than music in the West. ...
Amir ElSaffar Crisis
... music curator for Alwan for the Arts, the New York-based Middle Eastern cultural center in addition to leading the Alwan Ensemble, which specializes in the performance of Arab classical music. He is also the director of the Middle Eastern ensemble at Columbia University. Crisis is ElSaffar’s fifth r ...
... music curator for Alwan for the Arts, the New York-based Middle Eastern cultural center in addition to leading the Alwan Ensemble, which specializes in the performance of Arab classical music. He is also the director of the Middle Eastern ensemble at Columbia University. Crisis is ElSaffar’s fifth r ...
Eliyahu Sills - World Flute Society
... Eliyahu Sills Known for his authenticity and soulful musicianship, Eliyahu Sills has been performing music for more than 20 years on multiple instruments, including bansuri, Turkish and Arabic ney, the upright bass, and electric bass. He performs throughout the country with his critically-acclaimed ...
... Eliyahu Sills Known for his authenticity and soulful musicianship, Eliyahu Sills has been performing music for more than 20 years on multiple instruments, including bansuri, Turkish and Arabic ney, the upright bass, and electric bass. He performs throughout the country with his critically-acclaimed ...
Baghdad born composer, singer, and oud player, Laith Alattar is a
... Baghdad born composer, singer, and oud player, Laith Alattar is a graduate of the composition program at the University of Michigan School of Music. He studied piano, voice, classical and film music with composers Michael Daugherty, William Aikman, Jennifer Furr, and Kristie Kuster, and Arabic magam ...
... Baghdad born composer, singer, and oud player, Laith Alattar is a graduate of the composition program at the University of Michigan School of Music. He studied piano, voice, classical and film music with composers Michael Daugherty, William Aikman, Jennifer Furr, and Kristie Kuster, and Arabic magam ...
Al-Nahr Al-Khaled Muhammad Abdel Wahhab
... Biographies of Musicians Simon Shaheen dazzles his listeners as he deftly leaps from traditional Arabic sounds to jazz and Western classical styles. His soaring technique, melodic ingenuity, and unparalleled grace have earned him international acclaim as a virtuoso on the ‘oud and violin. Shaheen is ...
... Biographies of Musicians Simon Shaheen dazzles his listeners as he deftly leaps from traditional Arabic sounds to jazz and Western classical styles. His soaring technique, melodic ingenuity, and unparalleled grace have earned him international acclaim as a virtuoso on the ‘oud and violin. Shaheen is ...
Al-Nahr Al-Khaled Muhammad Abdel Wahhab
... Saltanah (Water Lily Acoustics), Turath (CMP), Taqasim (Lyrichord), Simon Shaheen: The Music of Mohamed Abdel Wahab (Axiom), Hallucination Engine (Island), The Two Tenors And Qantara (Ark 21/Mondo Melodia), and the eleven Grammy nomination album Blue Flame (ARK21, 2001). He has contributed selection ...
... Saltanah (Water Lily Acoustics), Turath (CMP), Taqasim (Lyrichord), Simon Shaheen: The Music of Mohamed Abdel Wahab (Axiom), Hallucination Engine (Island), The Two Tenors And Qantara (Ark 21/Mondo Melodia), and the eleven Grammy nomination album Blue Flame (ARK21, 2001). He has contributed selection ...
A Tribute to Muhammad Abdel Wahhab and Um
... Saltanah (Water Lily Acoustics), Turath (CMP), Taqasim (Lyrichord), Simon Shaheen: The Music of Mohamed Abdel Wahab (Axiom), Hallucination Engine (Island), The Two Tenors And Qantara (Ark 21/Mondo Melodia), and the eleven Grammy nomination album Blue Flame (ARK21, 2001). He has contributed selection ...
... Saltanah (Water Lily Acoustics), Turath (CMP), Taqasim (Lyrichord), Simon Shaheen: The Music of Mohamed Abdel Wahab (Axiom), Hallucination Engine (Island), The Two Tenors And Qantara (Ark 21/Mondo Melodia), and the eleven Grammy nomination album Blue Flame (ARK21, 2001). He has contributed selection ...
Welcome to North Africa!
... Musicians are the lowest caste (iggawin) Their role: to spread news between villages ...
... Musicians are the lowest caste (iggawin) Their role: to spread news between villages ...
Arabic music

Arabic music or Arab music (Arabic: الموسيقى العربية – ALA-LC: al-mūsīqá al-‘Arabīyah) is the music of the Arab world.Arab music, while independent and very alive, has a long history of interaction with many other regional musical styles and genres. Many European scholars claim that Arabic music has Persian origins.It is an amalgam of the music of the Arab people in the Arabian Peninsula and the music of all the peoples that make up the Arab world today. As was the case in other artistic and scientific fields, Arabs translated Greek texts and works of music and developed the musical theory of the Greeks (i.e. Systema ametabolon, enharmonium, chromatikon, diatonon).