25.06.2011

random#70 - morocco

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The dance opens with an invocation (tamawouet) intoned by a solist and the vocal part is then developed by way of an antiphonal pattern. The melody, based on short, strongly-rhythmic and repeated phrases, is chromatic. The basic rhythm, charactersistic of the Ahouach, is constructed on a pattern of 3/8 and 3/4