Types of Mauritanian music
There are three patterns of playing music in Mauritanian tradition; · Al-bayda which is the white way which associated with del...
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There
are three patterns of playing music in Mauritanian tradition;
·
Al-bayda which is the white way which
associated with delicate and refined music and the Bidan (Moors of the North
African Stock)
·
Al-kahla which is the black way which
associated with the roots and masculine music and the Haratin (Moors of
Sub-Saharan stock)
·
I’gnaydiya which is the mixed or
spotted way.
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The
progress of music through the five modes (a system with origins in Arabic
music): Karr, fagu (both in black), lakhal, labyad (both are white and
correspond to the period of one’s life or a felling) and lebtyat (white in a
spiritual mode relating to the afterlife). There are more sub modes that makes
for a complicated system, at one which all the male musicians conform. Female
artists are not found often and they are not bound with same set of rules.
