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"Your Subculture Soundtrack" is a music wiki devoted to creating the definitive music encyclopedia which includes aspects of all music topics. The best part is that anyone can edit here!

"Your Subculture Soundtrack" is a music wiki devoted to creating the definitive music encyclopedia which includes aspects of all music topics. The best part is that anyone can edit here!

Studio Almaya is a studio for music studies founded by Yair Dalal, who dedicates himself to continue the Jewish-Arabic musical heritage, and pass it to the future generations. His Goals are to connect and advance young musicians towards the ethnic musical branch, encouraging ethnic music creativity, and establishing an archive for ethnic music. Almaya became a meeting Point for people from all ages and origins, which find the studio the only place in Israel Where they can enrich themselves musically and intellectually in this unique tradition of Jewish-Arab music. Studio almaya is located in the old Jaffa Port , Almaya means The Universe in Aramaic and On the Water in Arabic. The classes and topics of the lessons are: Middle eastern music Rhythm Scales Tonality Instrumentation: Oud Violin Ney Percussion Vocal Theory and practice The Maqam phenomena and its philosophy The history of Judeo- Arab music : Composition Songs Composers and Singers as well as secular and religious songs

Great bravery in linking traditional Turkish styles with western music, tackling subjects that challenged authorities. In 1970s, was 1stTurkish woman to write + publicly perform her own songs!

Summary: An expanded version of "Introduction to Music Theory", this course includes a review of common notation and an introduction to the physics behind music theory, as well as the basic concepts of music theory and a few slightly advanced but very useful topics, such as transposition.

Cretan music and dance is intoxicating, passionate, joyous! This is one of the best overviews I've ever seen on the topic. Concise yet comprehensive; detailed yet fun and easy.

Egyptian native Hossam Ramzy is the leader and chief percussionist of Pharaoh's Egyptian Ensemble, best known to Western listeners as the backing group featured on Robert Plant and Jimmy Page's No Quarter tour and album. Ramzy began playing the darabouka (Egyptian tabla) at a young age, much to his father's dismay. He moved to Saudi Arabia as a teenager, learning his craft while supporting himself by playing trap drums for radio and television programs.

Guqin 古琴

Qin music tends to linger on certain notes, with an emphasis on silence and timbre, giving it a meditative quality. Being an instrument historically associated with literati, its aim is Confucian (in trying to cultivate one's mind) as well as Daoist (in s

American qin player/scholar John Thompson advocates for both silk + nylon-wrapped metal strings for different styles of qin music (much like classical (nylon-string) and steel-string guitar music).

Miles Davis NavigatorA list of resources from around the Web about Miles Davis as selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times.