Waslah

A wasla (Arabic: وصلة‎‎ / ALA-LC: waṣlah; plural وصلات / waṣlāt) is a set of pieces in Arabic music. It comprises eight or more movements such as muwashshah, taqsim, layali, mawwal, qasida, dawr, sama'i, bashraf, dulab, and popular songs.^[1]

The term is also used to refer to a segment of Sufi music.^[1]

References

1 2 Danielson, The Voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthūm, Arabic song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century, 146.

Other sources

Racy, Ali Jihad (1983). "The Waslah: a Compound Form Principle in Egyptian Music", Arab Studies Quarterly, v. 5, no. 4, pp. 396-403.

See also

Fasıl

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