From the qaraami songbook
Beerdilaacshe
A Qaraami melody
Melody composed by Abdillahi Qarshe, 1950s.
Abdillahi Qarshe was a pioneer of modern Somali music — among the first to set Somali song to the kaban (oud), and a founding voice of the qaraami tradition this archive exists to preserve. Beerdilaacshe comes from his body of work in the 1950s.
Sheet music transcribed and engraved by Khalid Ibrahim.
Hear the melody
♩ = 96 · 4/4 · oud (plucked synthesis) · durbaan
Performed in the browser: the melody on plucked-string synthesis voiced after the oud — doubled courses, slightly detuned — over a durbaan frame-drum groove in 4/4. No piano patch involved.
The engraving
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“Beerdilaacshe” — melody by Abdillahi Qarshe (1950s) · sheet music by Khalid Ibrahim · QaraamiGenAI archive edition.