Much Arabic medication, is characterized by an emphasis on melody and rhythm, as opposed to harmony. There be rough genres of Arabic music that are polyphonic, but typically, Arabic music is homophonic.[19]
Habib Hassan Touma (1996, p.xix-xx) submits that there are five components that characterize Arabic music:
1. The Arab tone organisation; that is, a musical tuning system that relies on specific interval structures and was invented by al-Farabi in the tenth century (p. 170)
2. Rhythmic-temporal structures that spring up a rich variety of metric patterns, known as awzan or weight, that are apply to accompany metered vocal and instrumental genres, to accent or depict them form.
3. A number of musical instruments that are found end-to-end the Arab world that represent a standardized tone system, are played with generally standardized performance techniques, and display sympathetic details in construction and design.
4. Specific social contexts that produce sub-categories of Arabic music, or musical genres that can be loosely classified as urban (music of the city inhabitants), rural (music of the farming inhabitants), or Bedouin (music of the desert inhabitants)...
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An Arab musical mentality, responsible for the esthetic homogeneity of the tonal-spatial and rhythmic-temporal structures throughout the Arab world whether composed or improvised, instrumental or vocal, secular or sacred. Touma describes this musical mentality as macrocosm composed of:
* The phenomenon of the maq?m
* The predominance of vocal music
* The tendency toward small instrumental ensembles
* The arrangement in different combinatory sequences of the small and smallest songful elements - the maqams and ajnas - and their repetition, combination, and permutation within the framework of the tonal-spatial model.
* The general absence of polyphony, polyrhythm, and motivic development, though Arabic music is familiar with the use of...If you want to go a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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