Before the revolution : a 1909 recording expedition in the Caucasus and Central Asia by the Gramophone Company.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Prentice, Will.

British Library. National Sound Archive. International Music Collection.

Akt︠s︡īonernoe obshchestvo Grammofon.

Series:

Topic world series

Language:

English

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Folk music--Asia, Central.

Folk music--Caucasus.

Field recordings--Asia, Central.

Field recordings--Caucasus.

Field recordings.

Folk music.

Caucasus.

Central Asia.

Ethnic music recordings--Asia, Central.

Ethnic music recordings--Caucasus.

Local Subjects:

Ethnic music recordings--Asia, Central.

Ethnic music recordings--Caucasus.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Folk music.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

London : Topic Records, [2002]

Language Note:

The vocal selections sung in various languages and dialects.

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

digital recording

Contents:

Vladikavkaz: 1. Kudari Zarond Lechi Zarag (Ossetian; choir) ; 2. Lezghinka (Chechen; tar, kamancha, drum) ; 3. Asup Khubada (Ingush; choir) ; 4. Lezghinka (Kabardian; accordion) ; 5. Aya-Duniya, Pana Duniya (Kumyk; choir)

Tiflis (Tbilisi): 6. En Inch Man Er Ark'ayakan = What a kingly thing this is (Armenian; vocal, 2 duduks) ; 7. Lezghinka (Lekuri) (Georgian; doli, 2 duduks) ; 8. Ekhlandeli Kalebi = (Contemporary women) (Georgian; vocal, drum tar) ; 9. (Bayati Shiraz) Katar (Azeri; vocal, daf, tar, kamancha)

Alexandropoi (Gyumri): 10. Alagayaz Badzr Sar E = Alagayaz is a high mountain (Armenian; vocal)

Merv (Mari) 11. Kovsan (Afghan; vocal, daira)

Bukhara: 12. Rafti Iloi Falag (Sart; vocal trio, dumbak, doira) ; 13. Sarvinaz (Bukharan; vocal, tanbur) ; 14. Khudoyar Khan (Samarkand, Sart; vocal, dutor) ; 15. Marsh Ishvoi (Kokand, Sart; chang, dutor, tanbur)

Tashkent: 16. Khazrat Sultan ("Kyrgyz;" vocal, dombra)

Kokand: 17. Soki Yamat Jigi-Jigi (Khojent, Sart; vocal, dutar) ; 18. Sowti Sini Khorosh, pt. 2 (Khojent, Sart; vocal, tanbur)

Skobelev (Ferghana): 19. Rok Mashki (Sart; vocal, tanbur, 2 dutors, chang, gijak, doira) ; 20. Suvora Andizhany (Sart; surnai, nagora)

Marghelan: 21. Mushagaran Kashkarcha (Kashgar; bowed tanbur, doira, Kashgar sapoi) ; 22. Sanor Ayty Khudoga (Sart; vocal trio)

Tashkent: Arzimni Aytay Body Saboga, pt. 1 (Sart; vocal trio, tanbur, dutar).

Notes:

Field recordings of folk musicians from the regions now comprising present-day Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Xinjiang (East Turkestan).

"From the International Music Collection of the British Library National Sound Archives"--Container.

Compact disc.

Program notes in by Will Prentice in English (15 p. : ill.) inserted in container.

OCLC:

50445755

Publisher Number:

TSCD921 Topic Records