Arabic music

Arabic music or Arab music is the music of the Arab world.

Including several genres and styles of music ranging from Arabic classical to Arabic Pop Music and from secular to Sacred Music.

Arabic music,while independent and very alive, has a long history of interaction with many other regional musical styles and geners.It is an amalgam of the music of the Arabs in the Arabian peninsula and the music of all the peoples that make up the Arab World today.It also influenced and has been influenced by Egyptian,Cypriot,Greek,Persian,Kurdish,
Assyrian,Turkish,Indian,African and European Music.As was the case in other artistic and scientific fields, Arabs translated and developed Greek texts and works of music and mastered the Musical Theory of the Greeks.

Arabic Pop

During the 1950s and the 1960s Arabic music began to take on a more Western tone with such artists as Abdel Halim Hafez paving the way.By the 1970s several other singers had followed suit and a strand of Arabic Pop was born.Arabic pop usually consists of Western styled songs with Arabic instruments and lysric.Melodies are often a mix between Eastern and Western.
In the 1990s the several artists have taken up such a style including Amr Diab,Samira Said,Hisham Abbas,Angham,Asalah Nasir,Kadem Al Saher,Mostafa Amar,Najwa Karam,Nawal Al Zoghbi.In 1996,(Amr Diab - habibi ya nour el ain) was released,becoming a tremendous success not only in the Middle East nor the Arab world but throughout the entire world. The title track, and its English version "Habibi", was an international phenomenon, becoming a massive crossover hit. In this song Amr Diab has mixed three music civilizations in one track. The Spanish music in flamenco music, French music by accordion solo and Arabic which showed in the playing of drums by Duff instrument and tamphits.
This song opened the door in front of Arabic music in the way of internationality and to be popular all over the world.

ARABIC JAZZ

Another popular form of West meets East, Arabic JAZZ is also popular, with many songs using jazz instruments. Early jazz influences began with the use of the saxophone by musicians like Samir Suroor, in the "oriental" style. The use of the saxophone in that manner can be found in Abdel Halim Hafez's songs, as well as Kadim Al Sahir and Rida Al Abdallah today. The first mainstream jazz elements were incorporated into Arabic music by the Rahbani brothers.Fairuz 's later work was almost exclusively made up of jazz songs, composed by her son Ziad Rahbani.Ziad Rahbani also pioneered today's oriental jazz movement, to which singers including Rima Khcheich Salma El Mosfi, and (on occasion) Latifa adhere.