Song from the land of fire : continuity and change in Azerbaijanian mugham / Inna Naroditskaya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naroditskaya, Inna, 1955-

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Current research in ethnomusicology ; v. 6.

Current research in ethnomusicology ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Azerbaijan--History and criticism.

Music.

Maqām--Azerbaijan.

Maqām.

Music--Azerbaijan.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 263 pages : illustrations, map, music ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2002.

Summary:

"Song from the Land of Fire" explores Azerbaijanian musical culture, a subject previously unexamined by American and European scholars. This book contains notations of "mugham" performance-a fusion of traditional poetry and musical improvisation-and analysis of hybrid genres, such as "mugham"-operas and symphonic "mugham" by native composers. Intimately connected to the awakening of Azerbaijanian national consciousness while ruled by the Russian Empire and the USSR, "mugham" is inseparable from the contexts in which it is produced and heard. Inna Naroditskaya provides the historical and political contexts for "mugham" and profiles the musicians, musical genealogies, and musical institutions of Azerbaijan. INCLUDES AUDIO CD.

Contents:

Split identity : the historical and literary heritage of Azerbaijan

"Mugham is not music" : the complex aesthetics of Islam

"A wave of melodious sound" : the basics of mugham

The sound of traditional mugham

The modernization/westernization of mugham

Mugham lineages fathers and sons, masters and disciples

Symphonic mugham

Women's voices defying and defining the culture

Conclusion : mugham as signifier

Travel notes : 1997 and 2002.

Contents of compact disc: Excerpt from mugham Rast (Akhsan Dadashev, tar)

Mahmud Salahof playing gaval

Bayati Shiraz (Alim Gasimov's Trio)

Bayati Shiraz : instrumental (Arif Asadullayev, kamancha)

Excerpt from Yettim (Haiji Jabrail Mikhail, [vocal])

Aria Nigar, [from] Act II, opera Keroglu / Uzeyir Hajibeyov

Fragment from symphonic mugham Bayati Shiraz / Suleiman Aleskerov

Gulistan Bayati Shiraz / Fikret Amirov (G. Rozdestvenskii, conductor)

An excerpt from Bayati Shiraz (Sakina Ismailova, [vocal?])

Bayati Shiraz (Fargana and Alim Gasamovs)

Excerpt from Bayati Shiraz (jazz composition) / Vagif Mustafa-Zadeh

Improvisation in Bayati Shiraz / Yassaf Eivazov, ud ; Salman Gambarov, piano.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index.

Accompanying CD is copyright 2003.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Contains:

Hacıbäyli, Üzeyir, 1885-1948. Koroghlu. Selections

Aleskerov, Suleĭman, 1924- Bai͡aty Shiraz. Selections.

Amirov, Fikret, 1922-1984. Gulistan Bayati Shiraz.

Mustafazadă, Vagif. Bayati Shiraz. Selections.

ISBN:

0415940214

OCLC:

51059097