Bedouin music

Bedouin violin players, Middle East, circa 1880s.

Bedouin music (Template:Langx) is the music of nomadic Bedouin Arab tribes in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, Mesopotamia and the Levant.<ref name="encarta">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is closely linked to its text and poems. Songs are based on poetry and are sung either unaccompanied, or to the stringed instrument, the rebab.<ref name="encarta" /> Traditional instruments are the rebab and various woodwinds.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Examples of Bedouin music are the Samri of Saudi Arabia,<ref>Middle East Report, No. 169, Crossing the Line, (Mar. – Apr., 1991), pp. 39–42</ref> Aita of Morocco, and the internationally recognised Rai of Algeria.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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