1. Arabic music or Arab music (Arabic: الموسيقى العربية, romanized: al-mūsīqā al-ʿArabīyyah) is the music of the Arab world with all its diverse music styles and genres. Arabic countries have many rich and varied styles of music and also many linguistic dialects, with each country and region having their own traditional music. Arabic music has a long history of interaction with many other regional musical styles and genres. It represents the music of all the peoples that make up the Arab world today, all the 22 states.
2. Diab has released his first album entitled Ya Tareeq in 1983. Diab's second album, Ghanny Men Albak (1984), which was the first of a series of records he released with Delta Sound; including Hala Hala (1986), Khalseen (1987), and Mayyal (1988), with the title track becoming one of the top 10 songs in the world at the time. His later releases include Shawa'na (1989), Matkhafesh (1990), Habibi (1991), Ayyamna (1992), Ya Omrena (1993), Weylomony (1994), and Rag'een (1995).
3. Many intellectual achievements, including music, musical theory, and the development of musical instruments, originated in pre-Islamic Arabia. Musicians profited from the patronage of the Kings of Saba, who supported the development of music in Yemen, the principal center of pre-Islamic Arab sciences, literature, and arts. For ages, the Arabs of Hejaz believed that Yemen produced the best true Arabian music, with Hadhrami minstrels regarded as superior. Music from the pre-Islamic Arabian Peninsula was similar to music from the Ancient Middle East. Most historians agree that diverse kinds of music existed in the Arabian peninsula during the 5th and 7th centuries AD during the pre-Islamic period. Arab poets of the time were known as shu'ara' al-Jahiliyah (Arabic: ), or "Jahili poets," meaning "the poets of the period of ignorance" —used to recite poems in a high-pitched tone. Jinns were said to disclose poetry to poets and melody to musicians. At the period, the choir was used as a pedagogical facility, with educated poets reciting their poems. Singing was not regarded to be the responsibility of these intellectuals, but rather of ladies with lovely voices who would learn to play instruments like as the drum, the lute, or the rebab, and perform the songs while keeping the poetry meter in mind. [2] The arrangements were simple, and each singer sang in a single maqam. The huda (from which the ghina was derived), the nasb, sanad, and rukbani were all popular melodies at the time.
3.1. Amr Abdel Basset Abdel Azeez Diab (Arabic: عمرو عبد الباسط عبد العزيز دياب) was born on 11 October 1961 in Port Said to a middle-class Egyptian Muslim family from the Egyptian country side of Menia Elamh, in Sharqia Governorate, Egypt. Diab graduated with a bachelor's degree in Music from the Cairo Academy of Arts in 1986.
4. The maqam system underpins both compositions and improvisations in traditional Arabic music. Maqams don't have a rhythmic component and can be performed with either vocal or instrumental music. Al-Kindi (801–873 AD) was an early Arabic music theorist. He proposed, along with others like as al-Farabi, the addition of a makeshift fifth string to the oud. He wrote several tracts on musical theory, including one on music's cosmological connotations. Based on the location of fingers on and the strings of the oud, he defined twelve tones on the Arabic musical scale. The Kitab al-Aghani, an encyclopedic collection of poems and hymns written by Abulfaraj (897–967), spans over 20 volumes in modern editions. Al-Farabi (872–950) wrote a work on Islamic music that is well-known. in Arabic music, his pure Arabian tone system is still employed. "Ecstasy denotes the state that results from listening to music," stated Al-Ghazali (1059–1111) in a treatise on music in Persia. Safi al-Din created a unique kind of musical notation in 1252, in which rhythms were expressed geometrically. Kjell Gustafson published a method to express a rhythm as a two-dimensional graph in 1987, which was the first time a such geometric representation appeared in the Western world.
