20 January 2018
Arabic Music Lyrical Composition Types: Episode 3 (The Mawwal)
Lyrical Composition Type 3 : Al-Mawwal
Kinds of lyrical music composition:
Arabic lyrical music composition varies according to the different melodic building systems and structure
Al-Mawwal:
It is the most popular kind of singing, formed into ‘Zajal’ and dependent in composition on verbal alliteration, it was said that the first to come up with a Mawwal were the Baramekah after being held by Harun Al- Rasheed.
