'ud
short-necked, pear-shaped, fretless lute
Buzuq
long-necked lute with twenty-four moveable frets
Nay
a reed flute that blown obliquely at an angle
Qanun
zither with seventy-five strings in triple courses with a series of small tuning levers that allow the strings to be returned
Tremolo
fast picking on string
Grace note pickups
playing the note above and below very quickly before landing on the main note
Octave leaps
jumping up and down on octave
Trills
oscillations between two adjacent notes in takht for decoration
Turns
ornaments including a note above and below the main note in takht for decoration
Iqa'
the rhythmic pattern or iqa' is made up of eight beats called wahda
Ostinato
repetitive pattern
Solo taqasim
improvisation
Maqam
a musical mode or scale
G A �? B? C D E ? (or �?) F G
Cadential Phrase
concluding musical statement
Qafla
The Arabic term for a cadential melodic phrase. A phrase at the end of a "sentence" or "paragraph" of improvised music
Vamp
rhythmic and melodic ostinato
Tarab
Translates roughly as "ecstasy" or "enchantment
Muezzin
the person who does the call of prayer
Azan
in azan, each phrase when repeated, becomes longer and more ornamented
Bayt al-Hikma
during the Abbasid Kalifite, "the house of learning/knowledge" where the translation of Greek treatises was written
Egypt
Cairo
Saudi Arabia
Mecca
Iraq
Baghdad
'ud
short-necked, pear-shaped, fretless lute
Buzuq
long-necked lute with twenty-four moveable frets
Nay
a reed flute that blown obliquely at an angle
Qanun
zither with seventy-five strings in triple courses with a series of small tuning levers that allow the strings to be returned
Tremolo
fast picking on string
Grace note pickups
playing the note above and below very quickly before landing on the main note
Octave leaps
jumping up and down on octave
Trills
oscillations between two adjacent notes in takht for decoration
Turns
ornaments including a note above and below the main note in takht for decoration
Iqa'
the rhythmic pattern or iqa' is made up of eight beats called wahda
Ostinato
repetitive pattern
Solo taqasim
improvisation
Maqam
a musical mode or scale
G A �? B? C D E ? (or �?) F G
Cadential Phrase
concluding musical statement
Qafla
The Arabic term for a cadential melodic phrase. A phrase at the end of a "sentence" or "paragraph" of improvised music
Vamp
rhythmic and melodic ostinato
Tarab
Translates roughly as "ecstasy" or "enchantment
Muezzin
the person who does the call of prayer
Azan
in azan, each phrase when repeated, becomes longer and more ornamented
Bayt al-Hikma
during the Abbasid Kalifite, "the house of learning/knowledge" where the translation of Greek treatises was written
Egypt
Cairo
Saudi Arabia
Mecca
Iraq
Baghdad