Prosodic features in theArabic singing poem (Talbiyah poemby Abi_Nawas as a model)

Abstract

Abstract : The linguistic approach to prosodic features in Arabic singing poem has a specific importance, Because, It combines the phonological level and the various characteristics that govern the poetic rhythm and its music. A sung poem belonging to a famous Abbasid poet, (Abu_Nawas), was chosen, which is the (Talbiyah) poem. to serve as a model through which we seek to reveal a kind of tendency to give priority to one category of prosodic features over another. The focus was on stress, intonation, pause, and duration. Note that modern phonetics have singled out all these units with sufficient scientific theorizing and explanation as a theoretical guide to understanding the linguistic pattern, but they lack a set of procedural tools that enable us to apply them to the sung poem. In order to fill this void, the article tried to present an analytical approach to avoid that obvious deficiency that appears evident during the aforementioned procedural transfer process by evoking the various tools necessary to highlight the prosodic features in their interaction with the various musical characteristics of the sung poem.