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By Jeffrey AllisonPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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Arabic has influenced us in music and on T.V., but how? We may ask our selves from the days or myths of The lamp, but what role does it play. Having most of the western stringed instrumentals being decedents of the Arabic stringed instruments it can be very exciting to do research on it and study from it. It can grow more interesting learning from and taking a closer look into the twenty-two states that make up the Arabic country. Having Khaliji, a gulf music coming from the states off the Persian gulf. Consisting of mostly of a modern contemporary Characteristics. The neatest playing music off the Persian gulf with instruments such as the mirwas, tabl, and duff drums. Violin plays an important part of the gulf with various other instruments in use And bagpipes. having mostly Kuwaiti, Saudi, and Bahraini artists in it today the first were Kuwaitis. They were the first commercial recording artists in there business.

What has influenced the Arabic music you may wonder with having a huge impact on western style music. While we look in we find The ancient Egyptians as well as the Greeks and Persians, with various others such as the Kurdish. There strong influence upon it being through Mesopotamia.

How is it different from other music in its class. “The Arabic Scale” is used to make this wonderful music, but historically correct Arabic music is usually based on something called “The double harmonic scale.” Which how it is different is the double harmonic scale sounds different than the major scale. The reason why is that it replaces several major notes with flat notes and sharp notes - half steps up and down from our own scale. Which gives it more of an original sound of Arabic Music in its natural way.

On a poetic meter you wonder, how it reads up into todays world. It began to the best of our knowledge in the pre-Islamic era of the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries. While the Greek music principles were translated by a Muslim scholar Isḥāq al-Kindī (801-873 AD). His take on music history was like no other publishing Fifteen articles in it. Changing in it as it grew into a strong culture as he published the first encyclopedic collections of poems and music to there knowledge. In the end to the best of my belief i would like to say pretty high in it.

Maqams or now a days melody as we look how it is defined different day to day. While the Arabic Music Conference in Cairo(1932). It had established reginal innovations in the intonation of Arabic Maqamat as they attempted to list the most popular maqams in western music a that time.

Coming in at the end of this you have to be grateful to be able to live in a world and to get to hear the magic and wonder of Arabian music. This culture that the Greeks and Egyptians had influenced to what is today makes the world more unique at the same time more cultural to live in. Helping grow the way we do things and believe in it as much as we can. Trying to find time either with family or friends or maybe even on a date learning new things and how they may influence us today? If you have any Questions please leave them in the comments below, plus I would like to thank everybody in Arabic culture and in music and please do not forget to like and follow Currrated on FaceBook to have a chance to listen to different Kinds of music and playlist.

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Resources-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_music

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Arabic-music-and-Western-music

https://zawaya.org/site/history-of-arabic-music/#:~:text=Arabic%20music%20has%20been%20known,only%20one%20maqam%20or%20melody.

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Jeffrey Allison

Grew up in Oregon on the bay where I learn to seek adventure in life as my parents got divorce. Travelled the Americas to learn more and be vocal on it all.

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