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- Especially after 1950, the rise of Western-influenced commercial popular music affected Middle Eastern art music, which now employs less improvisation and more strict unison between parts, in shorter pieces.
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Especially after 1950, the rise of Western-influenced commercial popular music affected Middle Eastern art music, which now employs less improvisation and more strict unison between parts, in shorter pieces.
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- The history of Islamic music
The earliest extant writings on Islamic music are from the end of the 9th century, more than 250 years after the advent of Islam. In the absence of historical documents, musicians, writers, and philosophers began to speculate on the origins of their music. They filled the gaps by legendary sources or vague traditions. Thus, Lamak is said to have ma...
The earliest extant writings on Islamic music are from the end of the 9th century, more than 250 years after the advent of Islam. In the absence of historical documents, musicians, writers, and philosophers began to speculate on the origins of their music. They filled the gaps by legendary sources or vague traditions. Thus, Lamak is said to have ma...
In the 1960s, however, what we could term the popular or commercial art music of the MENA began to incorporate instrumentation associated with Euro-American pop and rock, such as electric guitar and bass, trap drums, and electronic keyboards.
Music pervades Middle Eastern societies. While traditional music remains popular in the Middle East, modern music reconciling Western and traditional Middle Eastern styles, pop, and fusion are rapidly advancing in popularity.
From the reproachful sayings of the prophets Isaiah and Amos concerning banquets and music, the existence may be inferred of a secular art music (Is. 5:12, Am. 6:5). The bulk of biblical references concern sacred music associated with temple worship.
Sep 3, 2020 · Music played a significant role in practicing religious rituals and the royal court life in most of the old Middle East. According to researchers, music in the Middle East was deduced from songs and rhymes that were night companions of tribes and clans during their trips.
But the AMAR project has put scholars of Middle Eastern music in a position, at last, to figure out at least some of the outlines of the key transformations in Arab art music between the colonial ethnographers of the 18th and 19th centuries, such as Villoteau, and the present day.
