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rhythm in arabic music wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 wazn and iqa 2 see also 3 references toggle references subsection 3 1 cited sources 4 external links toggle the table of contents rhythm in arabic music 2 languages العربية مصرى edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia aspect of arabic music wazn wahdah sayirah a relatively short measure of four beats rhythms in arabic music are rich and very diverse as they cover a huge region and peoples from northern africa to western asia rhymes are mainly analysed by means of rhythmic units called awzan and iqa at wazn and iqa edit a rhythmic pattern or cycle in arabic music is called a wazn arabic وزن plural أوزان awzān literally a measure 1 a wazn is only used in musical genres with a fixed rhythmic temporal organization including recurring measures motifs and meter or pulse 2 it consists of two or more regularly recurring time segments each time segment consisting of at least two beats naqarāt plural of naqrah there are approximately one hundred different cycles used in the repertoire of arabic music many of them shared with other regional music also found in some south european styles like spanish music they are recorded and remembered through onomatopoetic syllables and the written symbols o and i 3 wazn may be as large as 176 units of time 4 iqa arabic إيقاع īqā plural إيقاعات īqā āt are rhythmic modes or patterns in arabic music 5 full citation needed there are reputed to be over 100 iqa at 6 full citation needed but many of them have fallen out of fashion and are rarely if ever used in performance the greatest variety of iqa at ranging from two to 48 beats are used in the muwashshah see also edit dumbek rhythms usul sa idi references edit touma 1996 49 touma 1996 47 touma 1996 48 touma 1996 48 waugh memory music and religion morocco s mystical chanters 201 randel apel the new harvard dictionary of music cited sources edit habib hassan touma 1996 the music of the arabs trans laurie schwartz portland oregon amadeus press isbn 0 931340 88 8 external links edit arabic rhythms page archived 2014 10 22 at the wayback machine from maqam world v t e rhythm and meter additive and divisive anacrusis bar beat canter rhythm colotomy counting count off cross beat duration note value gatra groove half time harmonic rhythm hemiola homorhythm iqa isorhythm metric modulation non retrogradable rhythm notes inégales note value polyrhythm prolation prosody pulse rhythmic mode stop time swing syncopation tala tempo time point time signature tuplet retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title rhythm_in_arabic_music oldid 1321712928 categories arabic music middle eastern music music of north africa arabic music theory hidden categories articles with short description short description matches wikidata articles containing arabic language text all articles with incomplete citations articles with incomplete citations from march 2019 webarchive template wayback links this page was last edited on 12 november 2025 at 05 25 utc page was rendered with parsoid text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike 4 0 license additional terms may apply by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc a non profit organization privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia legal safety contacts code of conduct developers statistics cookie statement mobile view search search toggle the table of contents rhythm in arabic music 2 languages add topic