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A rhythmic pattern or cycle in Arabic music is called a "wazn" (Arabic: وزن; plural أوزان / awzān), literally a "measure". [1]A wazn is only used in musical genres with a fixed rhythmic-temporal organization including recurring measures, motifs, and meter or pulse. [2]
Mizan (Arabic: ميزان, lit. 'balance') is a concept in the Quran, which has been described as "the principle of the middle path" [1] and "the overarching divine principle for organizing our universe". [2] Azizah Y. al-Hibri argues that Mizan, as the "divine scale", could be transformed into Adl in human realm. [2]
A technique in which a rhythmic pattern is superposed on another, heterometrically, and then supersedes it and becomes the basic metre. Usually, such time signatures are mutually prime, e.g., 4 4 and 3 8, and so have no common divisors. Thus the change of the basic metre decisively alters the numerical content of the beat, but the minimal ...
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In music, the terms additive and divisive are used to distinguish two types of both rhythm and meter: . A divisive (or, alternately, multiplicative) rhythm is a rhythm in which a larger period of time is divided into smaller rhythmic units or, conversely, some integer unit is regularly multiplied into larger, equal units.
The 13-syllable meter of the Persian ruba'i (quatrain) is also traditionally analysed as if it was a variety of the hazaj meter, [19] but in reality it is quite different, and evidently has no connection with the meter described above. [20] The meter, which has two versions, differing in the reversal of the 6th and 7th syllables, is as follows:
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Al-Akhfash, a student of al-Farahidi, later added one more meter to make them sixteen. The meters of the rhythmical poetry are known in Arabic as "seas" ( buḥūr ). The measuring unit of seas is known as " taf‘īlah ," and every sea contains a certain number of taf'ilas which the poet has to observe in every verse ( bayt ) of the poem.