Music 1710F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Middle Eastern Music, Kamancheh, Rhythmic Mode
20 Dec 2016
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Reading: nettl et al. , excursions in world music (5th ed. Learn to play it: from excursions in world music" pp. Culture and society in the middle east: 18 countries: bahrain, iran, iraq, jordan, kuwait, lebanon, oman, qatar, saudi araba, syria, Turkey, united arb emirates and yemen: 12 languages: arabic, aramic, armenian, azerbaijani, balochi, french, greek, hebrew, Kurdish, persian, somali, turkish: over 200 million people of various ethnicities including: arabs, turks, persians, kurds, Arabic: holy koran must be read in arabic, arabic = dominant language, therefore good cultural exchange. Ethnic diversity: arbitrarily drawn borders (by the west) increase tensions, example: iraq: shi"ite and sunni arabs, along with kurds. Geography: north africa (to morocco) to the caucasus to afghanistan and central asia, and the balkans. Monophonic: one melody, sometimes trailed by another instrument, sometimes played in parallel, sometimes played heterophonically (the simultaneous playing or singing of two or more versions of a melody. ) by several instruments.
