Longa

A longa (Arabic: لونجا) is a Turkish / Eastern European dance, that was later introduced into Arabic music and is often performed at the end of a muwashshah. It generally uses an iqa' equivalent to 2/4, with several sections called khanat (singular khana), each followed by a taslim (refrain). The last khana is generally in 3/4. A common form of longa is longa Riad in Nahawand scale (لونجا نهاوند) which is composed by the Egyptian composer Riad Al Sunbati in the maqam Nahawand.¶

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Longa (Middle Eastern music)”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.¶

Longa is Turkish / Eastern European dance, that was later introduced into Arabic music and is often performed at the end of a muwashshah, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.¹¶

The source record links this tradition to 1 external register, which can be verified through the citation.¹¶