Categories: Asian music | Middle East stubs Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The category Middle Eastern music refers to music from the Middle East and its different regions such as North Africa, the Levant and the Persian Gulf States. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Arabesk. ... Raï (Arabic: راي) is a form of folk music, originated in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African-American and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture. ... Arab music is the music of Arabic-speaking people or countries, especially those centered around the Arabian Peninsula, though Peter van der Merwe (1989, p. ... Arabic pop music or Arab pop is a subgenre of Arabic music. ... Coptic music is music that is played in the Coptic Orthodox Church (of Egypt). ... Chaabi, also known as Chaâbi, Sha-bii, or Shabii, refers to two different Music genres in North Africa : Algerian chaabi Moroccan chaabi Categories: | ... Persian music or Musiqi Sonati is the traditional and indigenous music of Iran and Persian-speaking countries: musiqi, the science and art of music, and moosiqi, the sound and performance of music (Sakata 1983). ... Iran’s local melodies are some of the richest, most beautiful and most various among the folk melodies in the world. ... The Sharqi is a wind in the Middle East that comes from the south and southeast. ... Qawwali (Urdu: قوٌالی, Hindi: क़वाली) is the devotional music of the Chishti Sufis of the Indian Subcontinent. ... Ottoman classical music (Türk Sanat Müziği) is a kind of music that developed parallel with the Ottoman Empire. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Persian classical and pop singer Mahasti was a veteran celebrity of Iran’s Golden Years of music. ... Nuubaat is a form of Algerian classical music. ... Gharnati refers to a variety of Moroccan music originating in Andalusia. ... Ciftetelli (τσιφτετέλι, Ciftetelli ) is a Turkish/ Greek dance. ... Gnawas around 1920s Gnawa or Gnaoua (in Arabic چنّاوة) is a group of musicians who might be descendants of former slaves originating from Sub-Saharan Africa or came freely to Morocco with Caravans during the Trans-Saharan trade trade, or both. ... Andalusian classical music is a style of classical music found across North Africa, though it evolved out of the music of Andalusia between the 10th and 15th centuries. ... The Sephardic Jews are one of the three main ethnicities among Diaspora Jews, the others being the Ashkenazi and Mizrahi. ... Malhun (or Milhûn, in Arabic الملحون) meaning the melodic poem is a Moroccan music that borrows its modes from the Andalusian music. ... Franco Arabic Music // Franco Arabic music is a term used to describe a genre or style of music that combines western music ideas into the Arabic music styles both old and new. ... Shaabi is the name of a style of living, a style of dance, and a style of music. ... Sawt (Arabic,صوت = voice)(also spelled sout or sowt) is a kind of popular music found in the Arabian states of the Persian Gulf area, especially in Kuwait and Bahrain. ... Arabic music includes several genres and styles of music ranging from Arab classical to Arabic pop music and from secular to sacred music. ... The region around the Nile is one of the oldest continually-inhabited areas in the world. ... Beirut, the largest city in Lebanon, has long been a thriving metropolis, known, especially in a period immediately following World War 2, for its European-style art and intellectualism. ... Turkish music includes the music of modern Turkey, together with related musics in neighbouring regions that once lay within the former Ottoman Empire, and closely related ethnic variants in Central Asia stretching as far as the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China. ... Moosiqi Asil or Persian music is the traditional and indigenous music of Persia and Persian-speaking countries: musiqi, the science and art of music, and moosiqi, the sound and performance of music (Sakata 1983). ... Syrias capital and largest city, Damascus, has long been one of the Arab worlds centers for cultural and artistic innovation, especially in the field of classical Arab music. ... Armenia is in the Caucasus Mountains, and its music is a mix of indigenous folk music, perhaps best_represented by Djivan Gasparyans well-known duduk music, as well as light pop similar to nearby Middle-Eastern countries, and extensive Christian music, due to Armenias status as the oldest Christian... Assyrian music is divided into three main sections or periods, The Ancient Period that is of (Ur, Babylon and Nineveh), The middle period or Tribal and Folkloric period, and the Modern Period. ... Kurdish Music (Kurdish: Muzîk û strana kurdî) referes to music performed in Kurdish language. ... Azerbaijan is in Caucasus but, musically, it is more closely linked to Persian culture. ... The music of Jordan can be distinguished from that of its neighboring countries like Syria and Saudi Arabia by its strong Bedouin influence. ... Palestinian music ;Arabic,موسيقى فلسطينية is one of many regional sub-genres of Arabic music. ... Iraq is known primarily for an instrument called the oud (similar to a lute) and a rebab (similar to a fiddle); its stars include Ahmed Mukhtar and the Assyrian Munir Bashir. ... Greek music is a mixture of influences from its own indigenous culture with Western and Middle Eastern cultures. ... The Berbers are an ethnic group in North and West Africa. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Since the 1980s, Afghanistan has been involved in near constant violence. ... Tunisia is a North African country with a predominantly Arab population. ... Gnawa musicians in Morocco Morocco is a North African country inhabited mostly by Arabs along with Berbers and other minorities. ... Yemen is a country on the Arabian Peninsula, and the music of Yemen is primarily known abroad for a series of pan-Arab popular stars and the Yemenite Jews who became musical stars in Israel during the 20th century. ... The United Arab Emirates is a part of the Persian Gulf khaleeji tradition, and is also known for Bedouin folk music. ... Djibouti is an African country on the Horn of Africa. ... Somalia has the distinction of being one of only a handful of African countries that are composed almost entirely of one ethnic group, the Somalis. ... Sudan has a rich and unique musical culture that has been through chronic instability and repression during the modern history of Sudan. ... Tabla player at the 8th International Music Festival in Kuwait Kuwaits musical traditions were well-recorded until the Gulf War, when Iraq invaded the country and destroyed the archive. ... Bahrain is a small island in the Persian Gulf, and is part of the pan-Gulf khaleeji folk traditions. ... Oman is an Arab country located on the Arabian Peninsula. ... Qatar is an Arab country located in the Middle East. ... Both Western and traditional music are very popular in Saudi Arabia. ... Belly dancers Belly dance is a Western name coined for a style of female dance developed in the Middle East and other Arabic-influenced areas. ... The music of Southeastern Europe, sometimes characterised by complex rhythm, is a type of music distinct from others in Europe. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Dabke (Arabic: ; also transliterated as debke, dabka, and dabkeh) is the traditional folk dance of the Levant, going back generations, and is also the national dance of Lebanon, Jordon, Syria and Palestine, its found also in Iraq and northern Saudi Arabia but with a different name (Chobi). ... Pop-folk is a music-genre consisting of both pop music and folk music. ... The tradition of Persian art music embodies twelve modal systems, known as dastgahs. ... In Arabic music a maqaam (Arabic: ‎, Hebrew: ) is, a technique of improvisation that defines the pitches, patterns, and development of a piece of music and which is unique to Arabian art music. ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... In Classical Turkish Music, usul is an underlying rhythmic cycle that complements the melodic rhythm and sometimes helps shape the overall structure of a composition. ...