Arabic Music

When I think about music and what I enjoy about it I think about my home country and the music that I have known all my life. Arabic music is my favorite musical styling. Although I have come to enjoy classical and contemporary styling as well, Arabic music has almost an innate quality of enjoyment for me. I am from the Middle-East and I have known Arabic music for the majority of my life. Its …showed first 75 words of 1257 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1257 total…absent one Nawarlee, wareenee, seikeit el habayeib Enlighten me, show me the road to the beloved Waseitak, weiseiya, ya shaheid alaya I've made you promise, you who witnessed Teikeelu alei beiya To tell him [her] of my state Weilee aseito blayaleiya And what I've suffered during my nights. Endnotes 1. Goodyear, Amina. Sawah - song compositional elements. 1996. 2. Ibrahim, Nicole. Sawah - song translation, transliteration. 1996. 3. Nassen, Abdul. Arabic Music and Its Cultural Influences. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.