… a few years before El Fassia.  In her recorded version the structure of Abyadi Ana is AABBCBBC; A and B represent the … or flexible, there are variants in the text and the overall structure is ABCBˡC. The orchestra repeats each section …

… piyyût , sections which contrast with the main body in both structure and metre. The only convincing explanation of this … passes from the Near East to Spain, the solo-and-choir structures are not taken over. This accords with the …

… East. It is a muwwashshah,  “girdle” song, a traditional strophic Arabic form characterized by its refrain between … Despite its simpler, more skeletal melodic and rhythmic structure, it still contains sufficient similarities in … Balwa” does not repeat the A section, leading to a strophic AB form rather than AAB. Though it is unclear to …

… Algerian, and Tunisian. We will also discuss the scales and structure of the traditional Moroccan Nuba (Al-Ala). … Taken from the website La Música Andalusí   The Nuba – Structure and Performance As previously mentioned, the … a chorus that are used as a kind of recess. The have a strophic structure and the number of lines varies between …

… well as other Yiddish folksongs that have a similar serial structure, continued to be sung until recently. Serial songs … songs are based, musical rhetorics that maintain a structure that differs from Western-European periodic structures, and asymmetrical rhythms. The dynamics between …

… simple and corresponds to the text in tight phrasing: It is strophic in structure and has two stanzas, each containing eight lines. … 7th, but stays mostly within the range of a fifth. The structure of the song is very clear. Each line is fitted …

… Weich-Shahak defines the copla as a poem that is generally strophic in form, with a varying but definite textual structure. According to Weich-Shahak, the majority of coplas … A - 8 B - 7 A - 8 B - 7 The musical form is similarly strophic, with two separate musical phrases: A and B. Lines …

… table below reveals that they are all related to the ABCB structure that is typical of Hassidic niggunim . Although … between Rumania and Ukraine).   No. Performer Detailed structure Reduced structure Text  1 Levanon (recording 2)   AB(=b1 b2 b3 b4) C …

… in the Moroccan tradition. [4]  In it one can find a structured Baqqashot service. While the majority of the … each Sabbath has its own Nuba [5]  (a complicated musical structure in Andalusian music) in which all of the piyyutim … to be said by an individual, and does not have an organized strophic structure or a meter. This type of Baqqashah was …

… the other three verses, even though its opening and overall structure and content patently belongs to the same class. … hinting at a common source: flexible beat; four-phrase structure; melodic contour ascending to the fifth degree on … melody without clear beat. These variants stem from the structure of the three verses of Psalm 80 which are almost …