Listening To The Palestine Lives: Song Analysis

In this listening activity I chose to listen to the Palestine Lives!: Songs from the Struggle of the People of Palestine playlist that is under Israeli- Palestinian music. This collection was created in 1974. The first song was called Beladi (Motherland) by Al Fat'h members. I noticed right away that the song was written 4/4 time. This meter was consistent throughout the entire song. The drums, and horns played first followed by a group of male vocals. The vocals were all in unison and were sung in a low pitch. The vocals represented the melody of this piece and kept the drive of the piece. The men spoke in Arabic in this song and was talking about protecting their home land. This song had a repetitive rhythm that was consistent throughout the song. The rhythm was syncopated and was played and song by all of the musicians. The song incorporated notes from the major scale. The horn would play four notes from the scale at the end of each phrase in the music. …show more content…
The song incorporated complicated rhythms and was monophonic. These qualities are used in Middle Eastern music to dive the meaning of the song to the listeners. I also saw this idea when, I was thinking about the timbre of the instruments. Each sound was very direct and almost harsh which matched the sound of the vocals. One think I did not like about the song was that the melody and rhythm of the song was repeated so much that the song became very predictable. The horizontal and vertical organization was the same and it did not have many layers to