Today, Turkish music is a fusion of classical art music, folk songs, Ottoman military music, Islamic hymns and the norms of western art music. Classical Turkish music is the courtly music of the Ottoman sultans that is an offspring of the Arabic and Persian traditions. This music is not written down in scores; with only the maquam, which is a similar pattern of major-minor scale system, being marked down. Improvisation (taksim) is a traditional variation technique
If you've ever thought of doing a spot of classical composition, here are a few tips. Ditch your pencil, paper and piano. Purchase one very large, powerful computer. Find one equally large, powerful new brain. Replace for your own. And get printing. For there's a new musical lingua franca and it relies on indescribably complicated computer printouts (spectrograms), wave analysis and new Pythagoreanism. Don't ask. What really matters is that it's called Spectralism, it's the future of classical music - and it actually sounds rather nice.
It is difficult to describe, what Giora Feidman, bass clarinetist, does on stage with his clarinet, how it laughs, cries, and narrates...Master of innovative interpretations of tango, jazz, classical music, and klezmer, her merges all 4 genres into phenomenally expressive, virtuosic, and emotional songs.
Konnakol (also spelled konokol) (Tamil: கொன்னக்கோல்) is the Carnatic music - South Indian classical - performance art of vocal percussion. It is also a comprehensive language of rhythm which allows the composition, performance or communication of rhythms
Since moving to Canada, Liu Fang has explored beyond Chinese classical pipa music, and collaborated with a slide guitarist from India, a cellist from Eastern Europe, a shakuhachi player from Japan, a zither player from Vietnam, an oud musician from the Middle East, and has recorded these multiculti collaborations with the Montreal-based Philmultic label.
Characteristics
The following characteristics are shared between Iranian and other Central Asian music:
* The music is mainly monophonic, with each instrument in an ensemble following one melodic scheme.
* The music is based upon a modal system; with each mode engendering different melodic types, called gushehs in Farsi. The execution of the melodic types are left up to the musician.
* The use of microtones divides the scales into more than twelve semi-tones.
* A priority is given to ornamentation.
* There are a number of substantial pauses in each piece.
The following are characteristics which distinguish Persian music from other Central Asian music:
* Melodies are concentrated on a relatively narrow register.
* Melodic movement occurs by conjunct steps.
* Emphasis is on cadence, symmetry, and motivic repetition at different pitches.
* Rhythmic patterns are kept simple.
* The tempo is often rapid, and the ornamentation is dense.
* Vocal parts are often decorated with Tahrir, a vocal ornamentation similar to yodeling.
* Also, Iranian music is unique in the Middle Eastern tradition in that the different melodic phrases, or gushes are supposed to model the rhythmic stamp and melodic pattern of poetry.
Swirls of gypsy jazz viola and funky percussive cello and bass. Ljova's a fantastic composer, arranger, and performer. Check this glorious and emotional classical Eastern-European avant-garde jazzy stuff!
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Chamber-jam music for the "remix generation". As if by alchemy, Eastern-European and Gypsy melodies, Latin rhythms, Jazz-inspired improvisations, and deeply rooted Classical forms. Ljova is a film composer, arranger, and violist.
Yair Dalal, born in 1955; composer, violinist, oud player and singer; is probably the most prolific Israeli ethnic musician and plays an important role in shaping the global world music scene. Over the last decade he has put 11 albums, covering wide and varied cultural territory, and authentically representing Israel's cultures and fusing them through music as whole.
Much of Dalal's work reflects his extensive musical skills in both classical and Arabic music and also reflects a strong affinity he has for the desert and its habitants. Dalal's family came to Israel from Baghdad and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work.
Trio Bravo+ blends classical music, klezmer, and folk rhythms. Its members are from Ukraine, Italy, + Poland. [ rondo_ukraine.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) ]
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