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- Ghita and Tabl
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-Tabl is a large double headed drum
-Ghita is a Tunesian Mizmar (double reed oboe)
-This combo is found all over, often for outdoor entertainment - Jirbah
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Bahraini Bagpipe which plays the melody line
-Can transition from metric to non - 12 beat Lebanese Dabkah
- dum teka teka dum dum teka teka dum dum tek
- 'Ala Daluna
- Popular debka song that has countless varioations, can go on and on and lined with other folk tunes
- 'Ataba wa Mijana
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-'Ataba: a form of folk poetry that is rendered in song non-metrically
-'Ataba lines are interspersed with a metric refrain that begins with YA MIJANA
-Often enchained to make a performance more lively - Laments
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-Laments at time of death is a culturally sanctioned way of expressing grief
-Poems are rich in information about native concepts of cosmology and world view
-good lamenters can move people emotionally - Fidjeri Pearl Divers from Bahrain
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-Musicains are pearl divers, fishermen. No longer a functional part of work music
-Two lead singers and then chorus are several octaves lower
-Rhythm and length of the solos are determined by group's work pulling the rope - Mihbaj
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-Sound of the heavy wooden pestle and mortar used to grind coffee
-Preparation and drinking of coffee is important social ritual in Bedouin and urban communities - Qasid
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-Sha'ir often sings in colloquial
-Numerous lines of poetry with two equal hemistiches
-Transition from spoken to sung poetry - Amarg
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-Poetry/music that is a favorite pastime among the ishlhin Berbers
-Village music: duels between poets alternate with drumming and dancing - Asik
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-A song of praise and herosim, performed by an Asik from Anatolia with a long-necked lute (saz)
-Often used to describe and praise the dees of Muhammad and the twelve Imams
-Nonmetric, nonexact repitions of stanzas - Zajal
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-Tradition of improvised sung folk poetry often set to common stock of meters and melodies
-Zajal often has poet-singers outdoing eachother musically - Muezzin
- s a servant at the mosque who leads the call (adhan) to Friday service and the five daily prayers, or Salat,
- Devri Kabir
- Long Turkish rhythmic cycle of 28 beats
- Hamadsha rhythm
- 10/8 rhythm heard in Moroccan Hamadsha music
- Shahadah
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-La illaha illa Allah
-There is no God but God - Al-Fatihah
- The opening chapter and verse of the Qur'an
- Tajwid
- -Rules governing pronounciation, intonoation, ornamentation, rhythm, in the reiteration of the Qur'an
- Murratal
- Private less elaborate style of recitation
- Mujawwad
- Elaborate and musical style of Quranic recitation, usually used for public performance by specialists