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  2. Music of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The music of Medieval Egypt was derived from Ancient Egyptian and Byzantine traditions. Lane said that "the most remarkable peculiarity of the Arabic system of music is the division of tones into thirds," although today Western musicologists prefer to say that Arabic music's tones are divided into quarters.

  3. Ghawazi - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic غوازي ghawāzī (singular غازية ghāziya) means "conqueror", as the ghaziya is said to "conquer" the hearts of her audience. They were also known as awālim (singular alma, transliterated almeh in French as almée), but in Egypt, Awalim are the traditional Egyptian dancers and singers of the city, not rural areas, who used to perform in respectable events such as the ...

  4. Riad Al Sunbati - Wikipedia

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    Riad Mohamed El Sunbati (Egyptian Arabic: رياض محمد السنباطي), also written as Riad Sonbati or Riadh Sonbati (30 November 1906 – 10 September 1981) was a 20th-century Egyptian composer and musician who was considered an icon of Egyptian Music. He composed 539 works for the Egyptian Opera, operettas and Egyptian cinema.

  5. Middle Eastern music - Wikipedia

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    Azeri Music, the varied traditions of Cypriot music, the Turkish music of Turkey, traditional Assyrian music, Coptic ritual music in Egypt as well as other genres of Egyptian music in general. It is widely regarded that some Middle-Eastern musical styles have influenced Central Asia, as well as the Balkans and Spain.

  6. Category:Music of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egyptian music (2 C) + Egyptian musicologists (1 C, 3 P) ... Singers who perform in Egyptian Arabic (80 P) Egyptian songs (3 C, 19 P) V. Music venues in Egypt ...

  7. El Sheikh Emam - Wikipedia

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    Following Egypt's loss in the 1967 war, while much of the mainstream Egyptian music of that time expressed a sense of national pride and focused on rallying the people behind the government, Imam's songs took a different approach. Imam and Negm criticized the regime and its handling of the war, as well as its subsequent impact on Egyptian society.

  8. Mawwal - Wikipedia

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    In Egypt, which is considered one of the traditional homes Mawwawel ("plural of Mawwal") the musicians of Mawawil play the rabab (a double-stringed spike fiddle made from half of a coconut shell covered with fish skin and a bow strung with horse hair), the kawala (an end-blown, oblique flute with six holes) and the arghoul (an ancient double ...

  9. Al Watan Al Akbar - Wikipedia

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    Al Watan Al Akbar - Pan-Arabic Patriotic Anthem Al-Watan Al-Akbar ( Arabic : الوطن الأكبر , translated The Greatest Homeland ) is a pan-Arab musical created in Egypt . The song was composed by the Egyptian Mohammed Abdel Wahab in 1960, and arranged by Egyptian composer Ali Ismael , with lyrics by poet Ahmad Shafik Kamal .