Musical Forms

In general terms, Arabic Musical Forms (genres) can be categorized into the following:

Improvised Singing

Improvised Music

Musical Composition
Nawbah in Arab North Africa
Wasla in the Arab Middle East
Fasil in Turkish Music
Shish Maqam in the Central Asian Republics
Muwashahat (plural of Muwashah)
Bashraf
Samaii
Tahmilah
Longa

Adwaar and Qudood (plurals of Dour and Qudd)

Modern musical forms

This Presentation is published on a Multi-Media Video DVD. This web site provides some of the Examples and Samples to give the reader an idea of how extensive this project is. It provides several means (Audio/Visual/Video) to discuss the various aspects of Classical and Traditional Arabic Music

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