Muwashshah (Arabic: مُوَشَّحmuwaššaḥ literally means "girdled" in Classical Arabic; plural muwaššaḥātموشحات or tawāšīḥتواشيح) is the name for both an Arabic poetic form and a musical genre. The poetic form consists of a multi-lined strophic verse poem written in classical Arabic, usually consisting of five stanzas, alternating with a refrain with a running rhyme. It was customary to open with one or two lines which matched the second part of the poem in rhyme and meter; in North Africa poets ignore the strict rules of Arabic meter while the poets in the East follow them. The musical genre of the same name uses muwaššaḥ texts as lyrics, still in classical Arabic.[1] This tradition can take two forms: the waṣla of the Mashriq and the Arab Andalusi nubah of the western part of the Arab world.
Muwashshah (Arabic: مُوَشَّح muwaššaḥ literally means "girdled" in Classical Arabic; plural muwaššaḥāt موشحات or tawāšīḥ تواشيح) is the name for both an...
Lamma Bada Yatathanna (Arabic: لما بدا يتثنى) is an Arabic muwashshah of the Nahawand maqam. The poem is considered one of the most famous Arabic pieces...
Portuguese: carja [ˈkaɾʒɐ]; also known as markaz), is the final refrain of a muwashshah (مُوَشَّح 'girdle'), a lyric genre of al-Andalus (the Iberian Peninsula...
Western and for Arabic music. A typical Syrian classical genre is the Muwashshah that goes back to around the 9th or 10th century. Performed by a lead...
poetry called Muwashshah developed in Andalucia as early as the 9th century CE, which then spread to North Africa and the Middle East. Muwashshah was typically...
divided the Andalusi musical tradition into four types: nashīd, ṣawt, muwashshaḥ, and zajal. A nashīd was classical monorhyme poem consisting of istihlal...
al-Andalus, and shared important poetic and literary forms such as zajal, the muwashshah, and the maqama. Islamic literature, such as Quranic exegeses and other...
Classical Arabic based on the poetry of Al-Andalus, particularly that in muwashshah form, with old religious melodies collected mainly by Aleppine musicians...
al-Atrash and singer Lena Chamamyan. The city of Aleppo is known for its muwashshah, a form of Andalous sung poetry popularized by Sabri Moudallal, as well...
it resembles ma'luf or andalusi nubah, in Egypt the dur, in Syria the muwashshah, and in Iraq the maqam al-iraqi. According to the article about Islamic...
improvisation and interpretation of classical forms of singing, Dawr and Muwashshah. Marie Jubran (ماري جبران) was born in 1911 in Beirut (or in 1907 according...
al-Muṣṭafá. Many of the Seven Saints of Marrakesh were men of letters. The muwashshah was an important form of poetry and music in the Almoravid period. Great...
the other in sequence. Dawr can also refer to the first section of a muwashshah. Ragmala Racy, Ali Jihad. Making Music in the Arab World: The Culture...
The discovery in the late 1940s of the Kharjas, refrains in Romance in muwashshah poetry otherwise written in Arabic and Hebrew, illuminated some morphological...
learned the style and forms of classical Arabic music, the maqams, the muwashshah, the dawr, the layali, the qasidah and mawal and of course the traditional...
main centres of Arabic traditional and classic music with the Aleppine Muwashshahs, Qudud Halabiya and Maqams (religious, secular and folk poetic-musical...
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