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Funeral laments of Lebanon
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- Online
Details
- Creator
- recording and notes by Ali Jihad Racy
- Included Title
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- Smithsonian global sound for libraries
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- Arabic
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Folkways Records, [1991]
- ℗1991
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming audio file
- OCLC
- ocn689536407
- Traditional funeral laments, sung in Arabic.
- Words of the laments with English translations and program notes by Ali Jihad Racy (8 p. : ill.) inserted in original container.
- Field recordings made in Lebanon in 1965, 1968, and 1970.
- Nadb for an adult males -- Hida for a deceased young man -- Nadb for a deceased girl -- Tahnin : lullaby for a deceased young girl -- Fraqiyyat for a young woman -- Nadb bemoaning ill-fate -- Nadb for an older man -- Qasidah for an eminent woman -- Nadb for a deceased boy -- Nadb for an old man -- Fraqiyyat for an old man -- Nadb medley for an old man -- Skaba and fraqiyyat for an old man -- Nadb for an old man -- Funeral march by a village brass band -- A Near Eastern march -- Marching music