ARABIC INSTRUMENTAL Songs

Listening to instrumental music can be a very moving experience especially in concerts or live orchestras. Arabic instrumental music, which is widely available nowadays for free download online, has the power to move the soul with its elegant yet intricate melodies. Since there are no Arabic lyrics it’s a beautiful way for the composer to put forth his emotions.

Arabic instruments are basically divided into 4 classes namely wind instruments, percussion instruments, bowed string instruments and plucked string instruments. Though nowadays a lot of western instruments are also being used increasingly but the true beauty of the Arabic instrumental music can only be brought about by the traditional Arabic instruments.

The plucked instruments include the oud, quanoun, saz or buzuk. The oud is the king of tarab and is a pear shaped lute instrument. It’s used not just in instrumental music but also by many male solo singers. The quanoun consists of 50 or more strings and is similar to the santoor. The saz is a kind of a lute with a long neck. It’s used by folk players as well and is available in different sizes the largest being divan sazi and smallest being cura sazi. The mp3 of this kind of Arabic instrumental music can be downloaded for free or after paying a small fee.

The wind instruments are nay, a bamboo flute with 7 holes, and kernayta which is a type of western clarinette used in a different setting.

The percussion instruments consist of the tabla, also called dumbek is hour glass shaped, daff which is a kind of oriental tambourine, bendir used more in the Arabic rural folk music styles.

Thw bowed string instruments are the kamanja which is basically a violin and the rababeh which is a one stringed Lebanese folk instrument. The cello and double bass are also being increasingly used.