Egyptian Music Flashcards

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Takht

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Late 1800’s-early 1900’s

Quarter tones

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Instruments in Taqasim

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Oud
Violin
Quanun
Nay
Riqq
Vocalist
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Taqasim

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Improve on modes

Solos in the Wasla Suite

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Types of compositions in the Wasla Suite

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Solos and composed pieces

Light and serious pieces

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Modulation

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From 1 maqam to another

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Tarab

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The feeling of ecstasy

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Ud/oud

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Lute

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Maqam rast

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C d e/b f g a b/b c

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Riqq

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Tambourine

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Mode

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Scale

Selection of notes played in order

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12
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Where Wasla Suite comes from

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Egyptian and Arabic history

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13
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2 kinds of heterophony

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Different instruments decorating a melody in different ways

Instruments shadowing a vocalist

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14
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Maqam

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Modes

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15
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Drone

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Single held note in background

Behind Taqasim

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16
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Nay

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Flute made of reed

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17
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How to singers use repetition to create a feeling of ecstasy

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Mode

Poetry

18
Q

Quanun

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Zither

Plucked with lots of strings

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Wasla Suite

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Egyptian classical music

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Suite

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Collection of related music

25
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Historical associations of the Wasla Suite

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Ancient Arabic past (Mohammad 570-632)

Andalusian Spain (710-1492)

Ottoman Empire (Turkey, 1299-1923)

Modern Egyptian nationalism (1952)