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Describe and discuss the performance of Batal al-Bab as it is performed by vocal soloists Salah Babad and Khula al Siyabia with ud soloist Salim Magrashi.
 
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Describe and discuss elements of the song.
 
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Answer to Question 1

 Complementary male and female soloists and choruses
 The piece is strophic
 The instrumental introduction is roughly the same as the instrumental interludes, although different instrument are featured during each interlude. . .
 While the lush violins, the chimes, and the synthesizer suggest that this recording is . . . world pop, the incredible plosive plucking technique of Salim Maqrashi's ud playing defines it as music from the Gulf. . . . It is the Salalah-based bar'a style.
 The bara rhythm can be counted in 2/4 (1+2+1+2+) or a quick 4/4 (12341234). Let's count it in two: 2/4 (1+2+1+2+).
 Since the rhythmic pattern is chugging along in 2 (1+2+1+2+), but the lines of poetry are sung in groups of 10 beats, the beginning of each line falls alternately on a different beat of the bara rhythmic pattern (Transcription 10.9).

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 Unlike many songs that are heard on the radio in Oman, Diwan's lyrics for Batal al-Bab are lacking in any nationalist content; rather the protagonist pleads, Open the door, oh door keeper' and reminisces about the good ties with loved ones, who seem to be oblivious to his requests.
 Is composed in rhyming quatrains with each verse of two lines
 Each line has two hemistiches (half-line)
 The rhyme scheme is aaax, bbbx, cccx, etc.
 Formulaic composition may be among the techniques used by the poet





 

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