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Tarab

Tarab (Arabic: طرب, lit. 'enchantment') is a concept of Arab culture that refers both to a heightened state of consciousness, an intensely pleasant experience or an intense state of emotion accompanied by awareness of a musical or poetic performance. Further, tarab has been applied to a style of music and musical performance in which such emotional…

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Tarab

Nodes50
Edges49
Triples103
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.04
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related to Literature · 47
Tarab → Amadeus Press, Arab Music, Arab Musical Culture, Arabic Song, Arabs, Asian Music, Austin, Chicago Press, Cultural Anthropology, Danielson, Darin, DiVA, Dwight Reynolds, Ecstasy, Edited, Egypt, Egyptian Society, Emotion, Feeling, Habib Hassan
related to Musicians known for inducing tarab · 17
Tarab → Abdel Halim Hafez, Arab, Arabic, Egyptian, Fairuz, Her, In, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Other, Referring, Sabah Fahri, Sabri Mudallal, Sayed Darwish, She, Through, Umm Kulthum, Wadih El Safi
related to Definitions and descriptions · 11
Tarab → Arab, Arabic, Commenting, Habib, Kenneth, Music, Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary, US, While, Within
related to Role of the audience · 8
Tarab → As, Because, Egyptian, It, Sometimes, The, This, Turkey
related to In religious musical experience · 6
Tarab → Commenting, For, Islam, Islamic World, Oxford Encyclopedia, The
related to External links · 5
Tarab → Afropop Worldwide, Arab Music, Art, Discography, Ecstasy
is a · 1
Tarab → subjective experience of total involvement of the audience with the musical performance.As there is no word in any western language that adequately renders this complex concept
related to Tarab strings in Indian music · 1
Tarab → In Indian

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music musical arab performance emotional arabic experience ecstasy culture state emotion audience concept refers also world style poetic feeling used

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Tarabis asubjective experience of total involvement of the audience with the musical performance.As there is no word in any western language that adequately renders this complex concept0.90text
Cairoinstance ofwith roots in cities0.80text
Beirutinstance ofwith roots in cities0.80text
Aleppoinstance ofwith roots in cities0.80text
Damascusinstance ofwith roots in cities0.80text
the sitarinstance oftarab strings are sympathetic strings of string instruments0.80text
sarangiinstance oftarab strings are sympathetic strings of string instruments0.80text
and similar instrumentsinstance oftarab strings are sympathetic strings of string instruments0.80text
Tarabrelated to Definitions and descriptionsThe New Grove Dictionary0.60section
Tarabrelated to Definitions and descriptionsMusic0.60section
Tarabrelated to Definitions and descriptionsMusicians0.60section
Tarabrelated to Definitions and descriptionsArab0.60section

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