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20 Cards in this Set
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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 |
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Jirbah
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Bahraini Bagpipe which plays the melody line
-Can transition from metric to non |
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12 beat Lebanese Dabkah
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dum teka teka dum dum teka teka dum dum tek
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'Ala Daluna
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Popular debka song that has countless varioations, can go on and on and lined with other folk tunes
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'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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Muezzin
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s a servant at the mosque who leads the call (adhan) to Friday service and the five daily prayers, or Salat,
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Devri Kabir
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Long Turkish rhythmic cycle of 28 beats
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Hamadsha rhythm
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10/8 rhythm heard in Moroccan Hamadsha music
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Shahadah
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-La illaha illa Allah
-There is no God but God |
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Al-Fatihah
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The opening chapter and verse of the Qur'an
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Tajwid
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-Rules governing pronounciation, intonoation, ornamentation, rhythm, in the reiteration of the Qur'an
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Murratal
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Private less elaborate style of recitation
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Mujawwad
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Elaborate and musical style of Quranic recitation, usually used for public performance by specialists
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