Asoma el alba (Yâ nadîm wa-l-fayru lâh), Zejel Hsin. Atrouz s. XV.
Cuando el alba muestra su luz (Al fayru hîn yashraq), Zejel Hsin-Nawa-Zidan-Sika. Hadjam s.XV.
El mejor de los hombres (Ya man fika radja/ Asalate alayeka ya hkayra onsi) Istijbâr Ska Moudjanib
Intercesor de las criaturas (Yâ shafî‘ al-jalq). Ben Abdallah
Tu imagen vino a mí (Atânî jayâlik) Istikhbar Hsine (versión)

Classical Arab music was born in Baghdad during the Caliphate of Mahdi Ibn al-Mansur in the year 775. Ziryab brought this music to Spain where it became established independently of the oriental world and a new style evolved because of the fusion with the music already present in the Iberian Peninsula. Ibn Baya (Avempace, d.1138) was the true creator of the Arab-Andalusian school, which developed until the fall of Granada in 1492 and is still found across the whole of the Maghreb in its original form, give or take a few losses and additions. The zejel (zadjal, azdjâl) is a poetic genre found in Arabic dialect. The term zejel (zdjal, zdjul) is also used to refer to a post-classical form of popular music and means "to move, to stir with song." Originally, zejel singers (zadjâl, zadjalâ) were non-professionals, successors to the Andalusian troubadours, who sang to melodies played on the zuma (shawm) with percussion on the darbuka drum and handclapping, and occasionally with zunudj (cymbals) and naqarat (a pair of small drums).

An Istikbar is a spontaneous improvisation providing a vehicle for the singer’s own feelings. Sung in four sections it includes an introduction, development, djwáb and a close or qufla. The instrumental responses between the sections are also improvised, usually in the sequence lute, fhal and viola.