A wasla (Arabic : وَصْلَة / ALA-LC : waṣlah ; plural وَصَلَات / waṣalāt ) 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.
The term is also used to refer to a segment of Sufi music .
References
^ 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.
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