The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Arabic maqam tradition · 9th century–

Egyptian film song takes Arabic maqam’s path-and-tarab vocal — seyr, modulation, long cadential flowering — and recodes it as cinema and radio ughniya with studio orchestra.

Influence

Egyptian film song

genre · 1930–

Also called Egyptian cinema song, ughniya

Twentieth-century Cairo cinema and radio song: long tarab vocal, studio orchestra, and a pan-Arab film public (Umm Kulthum, Abdel Wahab). It hears Arabic maqam for the path-and-tarab vocal recoded as ughniya. It already gives Arabesk the lament-and-orchestra job Turkish cassette/film recodes. Empty extra Given is historically checked: pan-Arab radio copies stay on this node. Ancient Egyptian leftover as a refused millennial parent. Western opera leftover as orchestration color, not a modal parent. Taqtuqa leftover as a lighter song wing on this node.

Listen

  1. Inta omri Umm Kulthum (1964) YouTube
  2. Al Atlal Umm Kulthum (1966) YouTube
  3. Khayyi khayyi Mohammed Abdel Wahab (1940s) YouTube
  4. Film song (Studio Misr era) Cairo cinema tradition (1930s–50s) YouTube
  5. Ana fi intizarak Umm Kulthum / Cairo repertory (1943) YouTube

Passed on

Arabesk genre · 1960–

Arabesk takes Egyptian film song’s long tarab vocal and studio-orchestra lament and recodes it as Turkish cassette/film popular song.

Influence

Arabic maqam → Egyptian film song

melodyperformance practiceform and structurestrength: highscholarly consensus1930–1960oralrecordingradio

Mechanism

Egyptian film song takes Arabic maqam’s path-and-tarab vocal — seyr, modulation, long cadential flowering — and recodes it as cinema and radio ughniya with studio orchestra. Strength high. Ancient Egyptian leftover as a refused millennial parent. Western opera leftover as orchestration color, not a modal parent.

Evidence

Umm Kulthum and Abdel Wahab as named Cairo hinges; Racy and Grove on maqam in twentieth-century Egyptian song.

Debate

Whether film song simply is maqam with a camera. The art-music path is maqam’s; the named Studio Misr / radio ughniya is the recoding.

Mediators

artist: Umm Kulthum; artist: Mohammed Abdel Wahab; institution: Cairo radio and Studio Misr

Egyptian film song → Arabesk

melodytimbre and productionfunction and contextstrength: mediumscholarly consensus1960–1980recordingradio

Mechanism

Arabesk takes Egyptian film song’s long tarab vocal and studio-orchestra lament and recodes it as Turkish cassette/film popular song. Strength medium. Turkish makam leftover as the other modal parent (other edge). Arabic maqam leftover as the art-music path, not this commercial-song hop.

Evidence

1960s–80s Turkish arabesk hearing Cairo radio and cinema (Grove; Stokes via Grove’s arabesk article).

Debate

Whether arabesk simply is Turkish Umm Kulthum. The named Cairo film-radio school is Egyptian; the named migrant Turkish popular school is the recoding.

Mediators

artist: Orhan Gencebay; work: Egyptian cinema and radio song in Turkish cities