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Idris Maalouni Plays
Poetic Music

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Hanan Younis Plays and
Sings Old Classics

Modern Musical Forms

(Taqseem Violin )    We continue our discussion about the Musical forms, in particular, modern forms.  Beside the Egyptian Dour, there is the “Moroccan Brawlah” , which is often mixed with Noubah. Here is an example ().  And another example is an Algerian Barwal () 

       In Tunisia, This style of folkloric and evolved singing is called “Fuondu”.  Of it, is what this group sings in Maqam “Rast Al-Theel” ()  

      After the Thirties of the last century, the well known Egyptian composer Muhammad Abdil-Wahhab has written many pieces that did not have any particular musical forms, used as entertaining and for enjoyment.  Here is a musical piece called “Liali Lubnan” (Lebanese Evenings)(  ). 

      After the second World war, there were attempts to limit the musical improvisation that accompanies dancing, by composing special pieces with limited improvisation as in a dancing piece, that was composed by the Late Fareed Al-Arach, for the renowned dancer Samia Jamal (Raqsat Al-Jamal ).  The second example of dancing music is “Raqsat Banat Tunis” () by Dr. Salih Al-Mehdi.