A list of all the singers (paytanim) and musicians performing piyutim (sacred song poems) on this website. Mostly for unaccompanied voice, piyutim are sometimes expressed with instruments like the violin, oud, ney, tambourine, darbuka, riq, and so on.
From the regions of Bessarabia, Galitsia and Bukovina, performed on tsimbl (Jewish dulcimer), 2 violins, 3-string viola, 19th Century C andd Eb-clarinets, early bayan (button accordion from 1889), bassetl (shoulder strapped cello) and baraban (drum). The
Think long, sinuous, minor-key, violin-carried melodies wending their way over a toe-tapping, thigh slapping, hip-shaking beat - a beat that sometimes accelerates and seems to be running away in ecstatic joyousness.
Serbian Music CD: The guys from Palanke. Let's all go to Dukati. Tamburaski orchestra. tamburaski tambura tamburica doczok serbia serbian suboticka subotico orchestra music tambura prim guitar violin strings stringed instruments traditional folkloric musicians friends blip.fm
RANCHERA, basically a waltz, polka, or bolero, concerns itself with love, patriotism, and nature. SON is a fusion of indigenous, Spanish, and African musics, much like Cuban son ~ but it varies from region to region. MARIACHI is both a genre and a band (composed of 2 violins, 2 trumpets, a Spanish guitar, 2 other guitars called vilhuela and guitarron, and today, trumpets.
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
Yasmin Levy (b. 1975) is a singer of Sephardic music born in Jerusalem. She has brought a new interpretation to the international Ladino song scene by returning to original instruments like the Persian oud, violin, cello, percussion, and piano.
Erhu is a kind of violin (fiddle) with two strings which, together with zhonghu, gaohu, sihu, etc, belongs to the "huqin" family. It is said that its origin would be dated up to the Tang dynasty (618-907) and related to the instrument, called xiqin originated from a Mongolian tribe Xi. Han Shi is a young, female, well-known, contemporary Erhu soloist