Gharnati music

Gharnati (Arabic: الغرناطي) refers to an Algerian variety of Andalusian classical music originating in Tlemcen.

In the 20th century it also spread to Morocco after being brought over by Algerian families who moved there fleeing French colonial rule in Algeria, and eventually founding conservatories in cities like Oujda and Rabat.

[1][2][3] The modes (arabic : طبوع : tūbūb') that are known in the school of Tlemcen are the following:[4] In Tlemcen, a nuba is a musical composition consisting of an ordered suite of vocal and instrumental pieces built around five movements whose rhythm progresses from very slow to very light and which are divided into two theoretical parts, the first comprising the first three movements (mṣeddar, bṭāyḥī and derǧ) and the second, the last two (inṣirāf and meẖles).

[6] It is a small vocal piece[5] composed in a mîzān əl-inṣirāf (68) often used to close a classical nuba.

[4] Qadriyya-s are found in seven modes[4] including mawwāl, zīdān, ğārkā, raml əl-Māya, ‘Irāq and sīkā.

Mṣeddar raṣd ə-Dīl "rani bi-l-afrah" sung by Lazaar BEN DALI YAHIA.