Describe some of the musical features of the music. (Answers may vary.)
What will be an ideal response?
• Women respond to the initial high-pitched poetic cries of a woman, followed by a drum.
• A male voice sings in free rhythm on vocables (meaningless syllables); another overlapping voice is heard toward the end of this melody
• Solo introduction by the mijwiza, a single-reed, double-piped clarinet, typical of the Levant, is followed by the nay (reed flute), buzuq (long-necked lute), and qanun (zither) playing in call and response texture (solo answered by group).
• "The song proper begins with a man singing the beginning of each line of poetry and a group of women completing each line."
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