Arabic Music Lyrical Composition Types: Episode 3 (The Mawwal) - ARABIC MUSIC LYRICAL COMPOSITION TYPES : EPISODE 3 (AL-MAWWAL)

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.