Rhythms in Arabic music are rich and very diverse, as they cover a huge region and peoples from Northern Africa to Western Asia. Rhymes are mainly analysed...
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Arabic music (Arabic: الموسيقى العربية, romanized: al-mūsīqā l-ʿarabiyyah) is the music of the Arab world with all its diverse music styles and genres...
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In Ottoman classical music, usul is an underlying rhythmic cycle that complements the melodic rhythm and sometimes helps shape the overall structure of...
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In traditional Arabic music, maqam (Arabic: مقام, romanized: maqām, literally "ascent"; pl. مقامات maqāmāt) is the system of melodic modes, which is mainly...
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approaches to rhythm see Rhythm in Persian music, Rhythm in Arabic music and Usul—Rhythm in Turkish music and Dumbek rhythms. As a piece of music unfolds,...
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Baladi (redirect from Baladi (music))
coat of beige, brown, or black. Egyptian music Belly dance Music of Egypt Rhythm in Arabic music Egyptian Baladi Aish Baladi - Egyptian Flatbread, EatLikeAnEgyptian...
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Dembow beat (redirect from Dembow rhythm)
beat or dembow riddim is a musical rhythm best known for its use as the core percussion element in reggaeton music, having taken its name from the 1990...
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classical music (Arabic: طرب أندلسي, romanized: ṭarab ʾandalusī; Spanish: música andalusí), also called Andalusi music or Arab-Andalusian music, is a genre...
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Arabic epic literature encompasses epic poetry and epic fantasy in Arabic literature. Virtually all societies have developed folk tales encompassing tales...
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Roc (mythology) (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
French from Arabic ruḵḵ (Arabic: الرُخّ, romanized: ar-ruḫḫ) and that from Persian ruḵ (Dari pronunciation: [/rux/]). In both languages, Arabic and Persian...
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Arab culture (redirect from Arabic dress)
results in exciting contrasts." Much Arab music is characterized by an emphasis on melody and rhythm rather than harmony. Thus much Arabic music is homophonic...
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Arab folk dances (redirect from Arabic dance)
folk music. Almeh (Arabic: عالمة, romanized: ʕálma IPA: [ˈʕælmæ]; the sublime dance in the past is ʕálme or ʕālme, plural عوالم ʕawālim Egyptian Arabic pronunciation:...
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of the oldest poetic material in Arabic, but Old Arabic inscriptions reveal the art of poetry existed in Arabic writing in material as early as the 1st...
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Arabic literature (Arabic: الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language...
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Islamic art (redirect from Arabic Art)
other texts. The main languages, all using Arabic script, are Arabic, always used for Qur'anic verses, Persian in the Persianate world, especially for poetry...
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include a growing number of inscriptions in carvings written in Arabian scripts like Safaitic, Sabaic, and Paleo-Arabic, pre-Islamic poetry, external sources...
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Arabic miniatures (Arabic: ٱلْمُنَمْنَمَات ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة, Al-Munamnamāt al-ʿArabīyyah) are small paintings on paper, usually book or manuscript illustrations...
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similar systems in Arabic and African music. Western music inherited the concept of metre from poetry, where it denotes the number of lines in a verse, the...
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Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry is a term used to refer to Arabic poetry composed in pre-Islamic Arabia roughly between 540 and 620 AD. In Arabic literature...
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Belly dance (redirect from Belly dance in the West)
Belly dance (Arabic: رقص شرقي, romanized: Raqs sharqi, lit. 'oriental dance') is a Middle Eastern dance that originated in Egypt, which features movements...
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Tadelakt (category Articles containing Moroccan Arabic-language text)
Tadelakt (Moroccan Arabic: تدلاكت, romanized: tadlākt) is a waterproof plaster surface used in Moroccan architecture to make baths, sinks, water vessels...
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old-time music and country music. Arabesque – an Arabic style of music created in Turkey. Arabic pop music – pop music informed by traditional Arabic styles...
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Kufic (redirect from Kufi Arabic)
The Kufic script (Arabic: الخط الكوفي, romanized: al-khaṭṭ al-kūfī) is a style of Arabic script, that gained prominence early on as a preferred script...
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Arabesque (redirect from Arabic motif)
Italian word arabesco, meaning "in the Arabic style". The term was first used in Italian, where rabeschi was used in the 16th century as a term for "pilaster...
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Arab wedding (redirect from Arabic Weddings)
Arabic weddings (Arabic: زفاف, فرح, or عرس) are ceremonies of matrimony that contain Arab influences or Arabic culture. Traditional Arabic weddings are...
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Etymology of Arab (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
maʿariv, ערב ʿerev). The direct Arabic cognate of this is غرب ġarb ("west", etc.) rather than عرب ʿarob; however, in Ugaritic and Sayhadic, languages...
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Arab identity (redirect from Arabic identity)
Arab identity (Arabic: الهوية العربية) is the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as an Arab and as relating to being Arab. Like other...
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Tarab (category Arabic music)
Tarab (Arabic: طرب, lit. 'enchantment') is Arabic music genre of folk and traditional Arabic music popular in the Arab world. In its classical form, it...
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"Arabic Kuthu" is a 2022 Indian song and the first single in the soundtrack of the Tamil-language film Beast, directed by Nelson. Starring Vijay and Pooja...
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Islamic geometric patterns (redirect from Arabic geometric patterns)
the good and the beautiful are separated in Arabic culture. She argues that beauty, whether in poetry or in the visual arts, was enjoyed "for its own...
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