The Garland encyclopedia of world music. [Volume 6], The Middle East.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Language:

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Music--Middle East.

Music.

Folk music--Middle East.

Folk music.

Genre:

Field recordings.

Folk music.

Art music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Middle East audio CD

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] : Garland Science, 2002.

Language Note:

Words in original languages.

System Details:

digital

stereo

audio file

Contents:

Eastern Arab art music: taqāsīm (solo improvisation) in maqām bayyātī and Samāʻī Bayyātī al-ʻAryān (excerpt) (3:51)

Turkish Mevlevi taksim (solo improvisation) in makam beyati (excerpt) (2:47)

Turkish classical taksim (solo improvisation), in makam beyati (3:37)

Classical Persian dastgāh-e shūr (3:48)

Yemeni drumming from the Ḥaḍramawt: Īqāʻ al-Rubūṭ (1:25)

Yemeni highland drumming: Ḍarbat Sayyārī (0:33)

Yemeni drumming from the Ḥaḍramawt: Īqāʻ al-Istimāʻ (1:20)

Yemeni drumming from the Tihāma: Raqṣat al-Mansarī (1:04)

Islamic vocal music: Inshād in the public ḥaḍra (2:39)

Islamic vocal music: Ibtihālāt (1:09)

Jewish cantillation: Bereshit bara 'In the beginning', Genesis 1:1-5 (1:01)

Eastern Christian chant (2:53)

Berber women's wedding song from the Anti-Atlas (1:21)

Berber wedding song, aḥwash, from the Anti-Atlas (2:27)

Berber warrior dance, taskiwin, from the High Atlas (1:36)

Palestinian folk song, dalʻonā (1:42)

Palestinian line dance, saḥjih (0:50). Palestinian shaving song, zaffih (0:42)

Qurba 'bagpipe' dance at a wedding in Oman (2:18)

Yemeni vocal music with lute accompaniment (3:06)

Yemeni vocal music with copper-plate percussion (excerpt) (2:15)

Saudi women's wedding song, Bāʻūnī (3:20)

Kurdish epic song, Hasu (1:52)

Kurdish dance songs: Ax lê Nurê, Henokê gerowwêre, Xwasîme (2:32)

Turkish Alevī song with bağlama accompaniment: Haydar, Haydar ("I wandered around for fourteen thousand years in the guise of a moth") (2:55)

Gharībī, lyric song of Khorasan province, Iran (2:21)

Persian narrative song, Sayyed Moḥammad Khān (0:55)

Persian classical music: Masnavi in the Dastgāh of māhur (3:28)

Kazakh epic song, zhyr (2:04)

Uzbek classical song, Sarabaxi Ōrōm-i Jōn 'Peace of the soul' (3:55)

Uzbek classical instrumental dance piece, Oynasin Dugah (2:32)

Moroccan Jewish song, Shokhant bassadeh 'She that dwelleth in the field' (1:35)

Moroccan Jewish wedding songs, Y fuerame a bañar 'I went to bathe' (1:59)

Jewish-Yemenite priests' blessing (2:05)

Jewish-Yemenite liturgical song, The song of the sea (1:35).

Participant:

Various performers.

Notes:

Issued with text of the same title.

Includes liner notes on audio examples in English.

Title from resource description page (viewed January 04, 2021).

Streaming audio files.

OCLC:

1231566906

Publisher Number:

ASP409890/glnd

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.