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  Arab Woman Women | بنات
Classical Arab Woman music is extremely popular across the population, especially a small number of superstars known throughout the Arab Woman world.
Musical instruments that are found throughout the Arabian Arab Woman world and that represent a standardized tone system, are played with standardized Arab Woman performance techniques, and exhibit similar details in construction and design.
A musical mentality that is responsible for the aesthetic homogeneity of the tonal-spatial and rhythmic-temporal structures in Arabian Arab Woman music, whether composed or improvised, instrumental or vocal, secular or sacred.
www.arab-woman.org   (874 words)

  
  Arab music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arab music is the music of Arabic-speaking people or countries, especially those centered around the Arabian Peninsula.The world of Arab music has long been dominated by Cairo, a cultural center, though musical innovation and regional styles abound from Morocco to Saudi Arabia.
Classical Arab music is extremely popular across the population, especially a small number of superstars known throughout the Arab world.
A musical mentality that is responsible for the aesthetic homogeneity of the tonal-spatial and rhythmic-temporal structures in Arabian music, whether composed or improvised, instrumental or vocal, secular or sacred.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arab_classical_music   (1602 words)

  
 Classical music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Classical music is music considered classical, generally thought of as sophisticated and refined; it may stem from a regional tradition, but aspires to universal form of communication.
Classical music is sometimes defined as music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of art, ecclesiastical, and concert music.
In the English language, the term "classical music" is a homophoric reference to European classical music, such as Beethoven's symphonies, and its derivative styles, and rarely used to refer to traditional musical styles of other regions.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Classical_music   (230 words)

  
 Classical_music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Classical music is music considered classical, as sophisticated and refined, in a regional tradition.
Most classical music traditions mentioned in the previous section had at least an early part of their historical development overlapping with the popular and folk music genres of their day.
For Western classical music this is the Classical music era, a period of about 50 years starting in the second half of the 18th century (with Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven as its most famous exponents).
www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=Classical_music   (980 words)

  
 Music of Africa - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
As such, there is little that can be said that applies to all the music of Africa, as there is no distinctly pan-African tradition of folk or classical music of any kind; the only shared form of musical expression is popular.
African popular music includes an array of teen idols, boy bands and girl groups, as well as numerous practitioners of imported rock and roll, soul and hip hop.
Highlife is a type of music that originated in Ghana and spread to other West African English-speaking countries near the end of the 19th century.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/African_music   (296 words)

  
 Arab music: genres
Arab pop began to develop in Egypt during the mid-1960s with songs that were sometimes humorous or risqué and often had nationalist themes.
Arab classical music is essentially the Andalusian music of the 10th to 15th centuries.
It is extremely complicated in musical structure, and its lyrics are characterised by the strict use of the Andalusian dialect or classical Arabic.
www.al-bab.com /arab/music/genres.htm   (1223 words)

  
 Arabic Classical Music
Classical Arab music was defined by theorists during the classical age of the Arab Empire, and that definition continues to play a role today.
Whereas improvisation was exalted in the classical period, and remains an important part of modern musicianship, classical and modern poetry set to song is an important part of the Arab tradition.
I have made a separate listing for the music of Yemen, a more conservative tradition which particularly appeals to me. Various older styles have played a role in the development of what eventually became Arab classical music, making the reconstruction of earlier Arab music a burgeoning academic topic, even if results are still rather preliminary.
www.medieval.org /music/world/arabic.html   (701 words)

  
 Classical music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Classical music is music that is perceived classical for one or more reasons.
Many musical traditions are linked to a region, that is, if the people making music in that tradition stay around in the same region, and if there are no significant ruptures in the musical tradition commonly associated to that region.
Most classical music traditions mentioned in the previous section had at least an early part of their historical development overlapping with the popular musicpopular and folk music genres of their day.
www.infothis.com /find/Classical_music   (1103 words)

  
 Al Jadid Magazine - Music and Dance
In his music and songs, he truly expressed the yearnings and moods of the masses, as well as recording the events that took place during his lifetime.
At the age of 30, Darwish was hailed as the father of the new Egyptian music and the hero of the renaissance of Arab music.
His belief that music was not merely for entertainment but an expression of human aspiration imparted meaning to his work that has, through the years, left its imprint on millions upon millions.
aljadid.com /music/0736salloum.html   (1051 words)

  
 History and Overview of African Music
Music, as it is conceived in traditional society, is not a function which enables its exponents to meet the demands of modern life.
Because music is a total expression of life, shared by all the senses, different cultures and lifestyles have significant influences on the music.
Classical Arab music itself was a fusion of pre-Islamite Arab music with Persian and Turkish elements.
afgen.com /african_music3.html   (2237 words)

  
 A History of African Music
To put African music in an historical and social context, I compiled the following notes on African history, on the social context of African music, on the instruments and styles of African music, and on the popularisation of African music.
The fact that music is at the heart of all of the griot's activities is yet further proof of the vital part he or she plays in African life.
Much music is based on speech and the bond between language and music is so intimate that it is actually possible to tune an instrument so that the music it produces is linguistically comprehensible.
www3.telus.net /africanmusic/histmain.htm   (2462 words)

  
 Arab music finds a voice - Haaretz - Israel News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Arab music is fundamentally traditional, and is transmitted orally from one generation to the next.
She turned to all the music teachers and conservatories in the country, and even did something very original: She organized concerts for classical Arab music, which were meant to put Arab music "on the map" as Oren puts it, and to find potential candidates.
But she said that friends who excel in music belittled the value of Arab music; she also described one friend who came to the camp, but didn't succeed in connecting to what was happening there.
www.haaretz.com /hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=324484&contrassID=2&subContrassID=15&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y   (1916 words)

  
 Al Jadid Magazine - Music and Dance
In his music and songs, he truly expressed the yearnings and moods of the masses, as well as recording the events that took place during his lifetime.
At the age of 30, Darwish was hailed as the father of the new Egyptian music and the hero of the renaissance of Arab music.
His belief that music was not merely for entertainment but an expression of human aspiration imparted meaning to his work that has, through the years, left its imprint on millions upon millions.
www.aljadid.com /music/0736salloum.html   (1051 words)

  
 Sexy Arab | سكسي
Classical Sexy Arab music is extremely popular across the population, especially a small number of superstars known throughout the Sexy Arab world.
Musical instruments that are found throughout the Arabian Arab Girl world and that represent a standardized tone system, are played with standardized Sexy Arab performance techniques, and exhibit similar details in construction and design.
A musical mentality that is responsible for the aesthetic homogeneity of the tonal-spatial and rhythmic-temporal structures in Arabian Sexy Arab music, whether composed or improvised, instrumental or vocal, secular or sacred.
www.sexy-arab.org   (874 words)

  
 Arab Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
' is the music of Arabic-speaking people or countries, especially those centered around the Arabian Peninsula.The world of Arab music has long been dominated by Cairo, a cultural center, though musical innovation and regional styles abound from Morocco to Saudi Arabia.
The Arab's musical mentality is defined by: ##The maqām phenomenon....
This alternation...results in exciting contrasts." Much Arab music is characterized by an emphasis on melody and rhythm rather than harmony.
restrictedsection.com /arab-music.html?epl=UVsPWVALXVUMVV8RXRYSQQhXE...   (1036 words)

  
 Arab Girls | جنس عربي
Arab Girl Ruby stated that before she had sang and danced for mere amusement, but in this particular album the Arab Girl placed extra efforts to bring out her best in the hope of meeting the expectations of her fans.
Classical Arab Girl music is extremely popular across the population, especially a small number of superstars known throughout the Arab Girl world.
A musical mentality that is responsible for the aesthetic homogeneity of the tonal-spatial and rhythmic-temporal structures in Arabian Arab Girl music, whether composed or improvised, instrumental or vocal, secular or sacred.
www.arabgirl.ws   (874 words)

  
 Saudi Aramco World : A Community of Arab Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Shaheen, trained in both Arab and western classics and widely regarded as the most dynamic link between Arab and western music today, explains that when he first came to the United States in 1980, there was no traditional Arab music to be found.
The seven days of classical Arab music performance, history, theory, rhythm and ear training were taught by a 12-person faculty.
I've been studying this music for 15 years, and every year I try to work on new music to keep myself and my chamber-music ensemble challenged." As an outsider to the tradition, she finds the retreat is also a valuable reality check.
www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/200205/a.community.of.arab.music.htm   (1689 words)

  
 Arabic Classical Music
Classical Arabic theory and practice can be seen as a great synthesis of both the earlier classical traditions as well as regional melodic forms.
The World Music Library label also has several recordings of Arabic classical music from Egypt and Iraq, but they are not quite as dynamically charged.
Some Arabic instrumentalists have suggested that this is the only sufficiently strong and truly improvisatory modern recording of their music, but for many others it is a pointless remark, due to the quality of relatively obscure archival material.
www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/arts/music/arabmusic/Araclassical/ArClasMus.htm   (667 words)

  
 Musical Instruments
Almost indispensable to the modern Arab ensemble, the violin in Arab music is customarily tuned to G, d, g, d'.
In the Arab world, Western instruments are prevalent and in some cases are connected with new musical repertoire.
Viewed in their great variety, Arab musical instruments are a living testimony to Arab history, musical and visual aesthetics, and the social and cultural facets of a rich and complex society.
www.classicalarabicmusic.com /instruments.htm   (2110 words)

  
 Arab Music - Part One
Whether from Morocco, Egypt, or Iraq, Arabs are able to identify today with a multi-faceted musical heritage that originated in antiquity, but that gained sophistication and momentum during the height of the Islamic Empire between the eighth and the thirteenth centuries.
Music, or alandshymusiqa, a term that came from the Greek, emerged as a speculative discipline and as one of alandshyulum alandshyriyadiyyah, or "the mathematical sciences," which paralleled the Quatrivium (arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy) in the Latin West.
The third major process affecting Arab music was the contact between the Islamic Near East and Europe at the time of the Crusades in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries and during the Islamic occupation of Spain (713-1492.) This contact had a widespread impact on both Islamic and European traditions.
trumpet.sdsu.edu /M151/Arab_Music1.html   (2009 words)

  
 Simon Shaheen By Kay Campbell
Arab instrumentalists use taqasim to explore a maqam, a scale or mode, with a series of musical phrases that the performer strings like pearls on a strand of pauses.
"The Music of Mohamed Abdel Wahhab" is Shaheen's tribute to the late Egyptian composer and consists largely of Shaheen's orchestrations of Abdel Wahhab's music.
Arab music is characterized by the use of quarter-tones, which lie between the half-steps of western music.
www.turath.org /Articles/KaySimon.htm   (1518 words)

  
 arab music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Arab Music The word music comes from the Greek word Mousiki which means the science of...
Arab Music, music of the Arab nations of the Middle East and North Africa.
Classical Arab music was defined by theorists during the classical age of...
www.theindustryyellowpages.com /th/arab-music.htm   (2834 words)

  
 Herman Rechberger's Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The rhythmic layout in Western classical music, in a wider sense, is quite uniform: The accent in 3/4 is given to the first, and in 4/4 to the first and the third beat of the bar.
In this respect, the structure of the long rhythmic cycles in classical turco-arabic music appear to us as a direct relation to the influence of poetry and song by their characteristic regular succession of time units, comparable with the succession of the syllables of sung poetry.
Musical instruments such as the lute (al-ud), the rebec (a small bowed instrument derived from the rabab), and the kettledrum (in the form of a pair of small kettledrums called nakers, from the Arabic naqqarah) became firmly established in European music.
www.dlc.fi /~sonopt/arabrhythm_page.html   (8671 words)

  
 Saudi Aramco World : Listening to the Arab World Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The deep reservoir of Arab music, in which a multiplicity of traditions is continually replenished by countless streams of innovation, has become more accessible than ever.
Including string quintets, desert folklore, pop genres and subgenres, electronica, village songs, bands and vocals of infinitely subtle variation, the music of the Arab world is profoundly diverse, and it is often surprisingly accessible to the western-trained ear.
The huge emotional response her music evokes to this day from Arabs everywhere speaks to the living power of music, to the strength of national feelings and to her power as a singer, which still comes through even to listeners who don't understand the words.
www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/200206/listening.to.the.arab.world.online.htm   (1094 words)

  
 Music of Syria - Biocrawler definition:Music of Syria - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Music of Syria - Biocrawler definition:Music of Syria - Biocrawler
Syria's capital and largest city, Damascus, has long been one of the Arab world's centers for cultural and artistic innovation, especially in the field of classical Arab music.
Dabka and other forms of dance music are also popular.
www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Music_of_Syria   (233 words)

  
 Pagina nueva 3
It is the typical formation that he interprets the Arab Classical Music in the origin countries and it is denominated Takht, equivalent to an European group of chamber music.
Its interest is centered in accomplishing a contribution musical result of its anxiety and experience but framed inside a respectful interpretation with the historical tradition and these musics stylistic norms, now materialized in the Abdel Karim Ensemble.
He has been director and professor of the Municipal Classroom of Music of Aracena, subscribed to the plan of Delegation of Huelva, during the courses 92, 93, 94, 95 and 96 in the subjects of transversal flute and recorder flute.
jakarandamusic.iespana.es /abdelkarimbodyingles.htm   (637 words)

  
 Arab music
(1989, p.9) cautions that, "the common style that developed is usually called 'Islamic' or 'Arab', though in fact it transcends religious, ethnic, geographical, and linguistic boundaries" and calls it the Near East (from Morrocco to India) style.
The basis of the Arabic music is the
Turkish music was replaced by national music, and Cairo became a center for musical innovation, hosting a
www.mp3.fm /Arab_music.htm   (1405 words)

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