Noor Ebbini

University of Jordan | UJ · Department of Music

Instrumental learning in music education is a complex process that requires specific teaching methods and strategies and entails a variety of intricate social, behavioral, cognitive, and emotional elements that collectively shape students' academic development. The coronavirus pandemic forced a change from face-to-face to virtual instruction of mus...

Objectives: This paper aims to identify the challenges that music theory teachers and students have faced upon the sudden educational shift from traditional face-to-face learning environments to virtual instruction due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The research also investigates the social, cognitive, and learning obstacles that students may have exper...

Contemporary Arab music, as a category that holds all Arab musical productions since the 1970s, has grown to occupy the vast majority of listening practices in the regional culture. Despite its massive appeal to the contemporary Arab society, scholarship has yet to explore this category from a strictly musical perspective. The present research cate...

This article explores the art of improvisation (irtijal) in the performance of musiqa al-tarab-a prominent genre of Arab music. The authors examine the theoretical concepts, generative mechanisms, and emotional and psychological connotations embedded in the performance of the two main styles of irtijal: The taqsim and mawwal. The study uncovers the...