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Maroc
المغرب
Vingt-six morceaux instrumentaux à travers le Maroc — le Sahara, Marrakech, Fès, Casablanca, Chefchaouen, Essaouira, Tanger et les montagnes de l'Atlas.
Traditions
- Andalusi classical music travelled south with the people expelled from Iberia, and is still played in Fez and Tetouan as a suite form called the nuba.
- Gnawa music, rooted in sub-Saharan West Africa, is ceremonial: the all-night lila moves through colours and spirits, carried by a three-stringed bass lute and iron castanets.
- The Amazigh traditions of the Atlas and the Rif are their own languages and their own musics, distinct from the Arabic repertoire of the cities.
- Essaouira, a port with its own festival, is where the Gnawa tradition has met jazz and other musics most openly.
Instruments
- Guembri — three-stringed bass lute central to Gnawa ceremony
- Qraqeb — large iron castanets that drive the Gnawa pulse
- Oud — the lute of the Andalusi repertoire
- Bendir — frame drum with snare strings beneath the skin
- Rabab — bowed fiddle of the Andalusi orchestra
- Ney and lotar — reed flute and Amazigh lute of the mountains
La musique d'ici
Le récit
Le récit écrit de ce voyage est encore en cours d'écriture. La musique, les traditions et les instruments ci-dessus sont complets.