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| Mohamed
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| Mohamed
Matar is a Lebanese master of the bouzok instrument.
His style
is close to Gypsy music, and
this piece, as the title suggests, isperformed by
the Ghawazi (Gypsy) dancers from the Ghajar (or Nawar)clans
living in Lebanon and other countries of the Middle
East.The Ghawazi usually perform in wedding feasts,
singing mostly erotic and crude songs.
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| Abdallah
Chahine |
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It was not before
the beginning of the 20th century that the piano
became part of the instrumental makeup of the Arabic
orchestra, and until the 1970's, the purists objected
to integrate it into the Arabic traditional Takht,
because it produces only definite whole and half
tones, while Arab music uses microtones. In spite
of that, all the Arab countries have had their piano
virtuosos from the 1930's onwards.
To answer the need of the quarter tone used in the
modes of Arabic music, the Lebanese musician Abdallah
Chahine invented an ingenious pedal devised to obtain
that quarter tone, without which many Arab musical
works can't be performed. Listen to him here improvising
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| Simon
Shaheen & Vishwa Mohan Bhatt |
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This is a unique
piece in which for the first time two artists from
the Arab and Hindustani art music traditions come
together. These are apparently two different traditions
but they have common historical roots. It brings
together two distinct musical modes, the Indian
rag and the Arabic maqam. Simon Shaheen plays the
oud, while Vishwa Mohan plays the mohan vina, an
instrument which he developed himself based on the
traditional indian vichitra vina and designed uopn
the oud model.
Shaheen is a recognized master of the Arab music
world. He is a Palestinian-American musician who
studied at the Academy of Music in Jerusalem and
completed his graduate studies in performance at
Manhattan School of Music in New York, and later
in musicology and music education at Columbia University.
Since then he has performed as a soloist and with
the music ensemble he formed - the Near Eastern
Music Ensemble in 1982.
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is one of India's most innovative
musicians. Raised in a musical family from Jaipur,
Bhatt studied under Ravi Shankar. He plays Indian
classical music and has also recorded several cross-cultural
albums blending Indian music with bluegrass and
blues in the company of Taj Mahal, Jerry Douglas
and Bela Fleck.
(More
modern music of Simon)
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1.
Dawn (Rag Kirwani-
Maqam
Nahawand)
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| Munir
Bashir |
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Munir Bashir
was born at Mousel, northern Iraq, to a family of
long history of musical accomplishments. Munir can
be accredited with today's world wide recognition
of Arab Music and a widespread appreciation for
the beauty of the oud.
He is famous for his long improvisations, some of
which were influenced by the Indian Raga.
This piece, together with two other pieces which
have been found by Munir's family after his death,
were published recently by Byblos records. A posthoumous
release which adds to Munir Bashir's legacy.
(More
contemporary music of Munir)
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