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Waslah
A ''wasla'' ( ar, وَصْلَة / ALA-LC: ''waṣlah''; plural وَصَلَات / ''waṣalāt'') is a set of pieces in Arabic music. It comprises eight or more movements such as ''muwashshah'', ''taqsim'', ''layali'', ''mawwal'', ''qasida'', ''dawr'', ''sama'i'', '' bashraf'', ''dulab'', and popular songs.Danielson, ''The Voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthūm, Arabic song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century'', 146. The term is also used to refer to a segment of Sufi music. References {{Reflist Other sources *Racy, Ali Jihad (1983). "The Waslah: a Compound Form Principle in Egyptian Music", ''Arab Studies Quarterly'', v. 5, no. 4, pp. 396-403. See also *Fasıl The ''fasıl'' is a suite in Ottoman classical music. It is similar to the Arabic '' nawba'' and '' waslah''. A classical ''fasıl'' generally includes movements such as '' taksim'', '' peşrev'', '' kâr'', '' beste'', '' ağır semâ'î'', '' y ... Arabic music Musical forms Classical and art music traditions
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Fasıl
The ''fasıl'' is a suite in Ottoman classical music. It is similar to the Arabic '' nawba'' and '' waslah''. A classical ''fasıl'' generally includes movements such as '' taksim'', ''peşrev'', '' kâr'', '' beste'', '' ağır semâ'î'', '' yürük semâ'î'', ''gazel'', ''şarkı'' and '' saz semâ'î'', played continuously without interludes and interconnected through aranağme arrangement A modern ''fasıl'' typically includes movements such as '' taksim'', ''peşrev'', ''şarkı (ağır aksak)'', '' yürük semâ'î'', '' Türk aksağı'', '' taksim'', ''şarkı (a few with increasing tempo)'' and '' saz semâ'î''. Traditional Fasıl (both classical and modern) is a musical act distinct from the performance of "oriental" or "arabesque" pop and folk songs found at meyhanes and taverns, which have come to be sometimes referred by the same name. See also * Waslah *Muwashshah * Andalusi nawba *Nuubaat *Longa (Middle Eastern music) A ''longa'' ( ar, لونجا) is a Turki ...
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ALA-LC
ALA-LC (American Library AssociationLibrary of Congress) is a set of standards for romanization, the representation of text in other writing systems using the Latin script. Applications The system is used to represent bibliographic information by North American libraries and the British Library (for acquisitions since 1975)Searching for Cyrillic items in the catalogues of the British Library: guidelines and transliteration tables
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Arabic Music
Arabic music or Arab music ( ar, الموسيقى العربية, al-mūsīqā al-ʿArabīyyah) 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 country and region having their own traditional music. Arabic music has a long history of interaction with many other regional musical styles and genres. It represents the music of all the peoples that make up the Arab world today, all the 22 states. History Pre-Islamic period (Arabian Peninsula) Pre-Islamic Arabia was the cradle of many intellectual achievements, including music, musical theory and the development of musical instruments. In Yemen, the main center of pre-Islamic Arab sciences, literature and arts, musicians benefited from the patronage of the Kings of Sabaʾ who encouraged the development of music.
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Muwashshah
''Muwashshah'' ( ar, موشح '  literally means "girdled" in Classical Arabic; plural ' or ' ) is the name for both an Arabic poetic form and a secular musical genre. The poetic form consists of a multi-lined strophic verse poem written in classical Arabic, usually consisting of five stanzas, alternating with a refrain with a running rhyme. It was customary to open with one or two lines which matched the second part of the poem in rhyme and meter; in North Africa poets ignore the strict rules of Arabic meter while the poets in the East follow them. The musical genre of the same name uses ''muwaššaḥ'' texts as lyrics, still in classical Arabic. This tradition can take two forms: the ''waṣla'' of Aleppo and the Andalusi ''nubah'' of the western part of the Arab world. History While the ''qasida'' and the ''maqama'' were adapted from the Mashreq, strophic poetry is the only form of Andalusi literature known to have its origins in the Iberian Peninsula. Andalusi ...
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Taqsim
''Taqsim'' ( ckb, تەقسیم, ar, تَقْسِيم / ALA-LC: ''taqsīm''; el, ταξίμι, translit=taksimi, tr, taksim) is a melodic musical improvisation that usually precedes the performance of a traditional Arabic, Kurdish, Greek, Middle Eastern, Azerbaijani or Turkish musical composition. ''Taqsim'' traditionally follows a certain melodic progression. Starting from the tonic of a particular Arabic maqam (or a Turkish ''makam''), the first few measures of the improvisation remain in the lower ajnas of the maqam, thereby introducing the maqam to the listener. After this introduction, the performer is free to move anywhere in the maqam, and even to modulate to other maqams, as long as they return to the original one. ''Taqsim'' is either a solo instrument performance, or one that is backed by a percussionist or other instrumentalist playing a drone on the tonic of the ''maqam''. See also * ''Layali'' * ''Zapin , image = Zapin.jpg , image_size = , ...
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Layali
''Layālī'' (ليالي) is a style of unmetered modal improvisation, based on a ''maqam'', performed by a singing voice in Arabic music. It is similar to the ''taqsim'', which is performed by a solo instrument. The ''layali'' generally serves as an introduction to a '' mawwāl''. In the ''layali'', the singer most often improvises using the common Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C ... phrase "''Yā ‘ayn yā layl''" (يا عين يا ليل), which means "O eye, O night." The term ''layālī'' is the plural form of the word ''layl'' (ليل, meaning "night"). External links Video''Layālī'' video Arabic music Vocal music Musical forms {{Arabic-music-stub ...
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Mawwal
In Arabic Music, the ''mawwāl'' ( ar, موال; plural: ''mawāwīl'', ) 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 vocals, and is usually presented before the actual song begins. The singer performing a mawwal would usually lament and long for something, such as a past lover, a departed family member or a place, in a wailing manner. Etymology Mawwal is an Arabic word that means "affiliated with", "associated with," or "connected to". The verb is ''waala'' (). It is measure 3 of the root verb "Walia" (), which means to follow, ''be affiliated with'', ''support'', or ''sponsor''. Originally the verbal noun has a ''Yaa'' in the definite form but it loses it when the word is indefinite. History There are many preferences regarding the origin of the mawwal, one of these is the one al-Suyuti attributes it in the book Sharh al-Muwashah to the era of H ...
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Qasida
The qaṣīda (also spelled ''qaṣīdah''; is originally an Arabic word , plural ''qaṣā’id'', ; that was passed to some other languages such as fa, قصیده or , ''chakameh'', and tr, kaside) is an ancient Arabic word and form of writing poetry, often translated as ode, passed to other cultures after the Arab Muslim expansion. The word ''qasidah'' is still used in its original birthplace, Arabia, and in all Arab countries. Well known ''qasā'id'' include the Seven Mu'allaqat and Qasida Burda ("Poem of the Mantle") by Imam al-Busiri and Ibn Arabi's classic collection "The Interpreter of Desires". The classic form of qasida maintains a single elaborate metre throughout the poem, and every line rhymes on the same sound.Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi, ''Description in Classical Arabic Poetry: ''Waṣf'', Ekphrasis, and Interarts Theory'', Brill Studies in Middle Eastern literatures, 25 (Leiden: Brill, 2004), p. 1. It typically runs from fifteen to eighty lines, and sometimes more th ...
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Dawr
A ''dawr'' (Arabic: دور or الدور; plural: ''adwar'', أدوار; also spelled ''dour'') is a genre of Arabic vocal music sung in regional or colloquial Arabic. The genre faded in popularity after the 1920s and often used the melisma Melisma ( grc-gre, μέλισμα, , ; from grc, , melos, song, melody, label=none, plural: ''melismata'') is the singing of a single syllable of text while moving between several different notes in succession. Music sung in this style is referr ...tic technique of ''ahaat''.Racy, Ali Jihad. ''Making Music in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. The ''dawr'' often uses a string of ''Arabic maqam, maqamat'', moving from one to the other in sequence. ''Dawr'' can also refer to the first section of a ''muwashshah''. See also *Ragmala References

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Sama'i
''Sama'i'' (also known as ''usul semai'') is a vocal piece of Ottoman Turkish music composed in 6/8 meter. This form and meter ('' usul'' in Turkish) is often confused with the completely different ''Saz Semaisi'', an instrumental form consisting of three to four sections, in 10/8 meter, or ''usul aksak semai'' (broken ''semai'' in Turkish). ''Semai'' is one of the most important forms in Ottoman Turkish Sufi music. Sample songs See also *''Saz semai'' *''Yürük semai'' *Waltz *Dede Efendi DeDe, De De, Dedé or Dédé may refer to: People Nickname or stage name * Dedé (Angolan footballer), born Adérito Waldemar Alves Carvalho * Dedé (footballer, born 1978), Brazilian footballer born Leonardo de Deus Santos * Dedé (footballer, b ... References * ''The Music of the Ottoman Court'' - Walter Feldman * ''Sufism, Music and Society'' - Swedish Research Institute * ''Makam'' - Karl Signell * ''Meaning in Turkish Musical Culture'' - Eugenia Popescu-Judetz External linksmany pie ...
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Peşrev
''Peşrev'' (pronounced in Turkish), ''Pişrev'' (), ''peshrev,'' or ''pishrev;'' called ''bashraf'' بشرف in Arabic; is an instrumental form in Turkish classical music. It is the name of the first piece of music played during a group performance called a fasıl (). It also serves as the penultimate piece of the ''Mevlevi ayini'', ritual music of the Mevlevi order, under the name ''son peşrev'' (final peşrev), preceding ''son semai''. It usually uses long rhythm cycles, stretching over many measures as opposed to the simpler usul the other major form of instrumental music uses, ''saz semai''. Along with the ''saz semai'' (called ''sama'i'' in Arabic), it was introduced into Arabic music in the 19th century, and became particularly popular in Egypt. Etymology In Ottoman Turkish, it was a Persian loanword composed of the particles ''pīš'', which means "before, ahead", and ''rev'', "that which goes". coming to mean "that which comes first". In Persian, however, the word پ ...
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Dulab
Arabic music or Arab music ( ar, الموسيقى العربية, al-mūsīqā al-ʿArabīyyah) 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 country and region having their own traditional music. Arabic music has a long history of interaction with many other regional musical styles and genres. It represents the music of all the peoples that make up the Arab world today, all the 22 states. History Pre-Islamic period (Arabian Peninsula) Pre-Islamic Arabia was the cradle of many intellectual achievements, including music, musical theory and the development of musical instruments. In Yemen, the main center of pre-Islamic Arab sciences, literature and arts, musicians benefited from the patronage of the Kings of Sabaʾ who encouraged the development of music.
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