| GR20- "It's a Mad World"- by Franco Tenelli -موسيقى عربية |
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My improvisations on GR20 patch.
Pre-Islamic period
The development of Arabic music has deep
roots in Arabic poetry dating back to the
pre-Islamic period known as Jahiliyyah.
Though there is a lack of scientific study to
definitively confirm the existence of Arabic
music at those times, most historians agree
that there existed distinct forms of music in
the Arabian peninsula in the pre-Islamic
period between the 5th and the 7th century
AD. Arab poets of that time - called
شعراء الجاهلية or "Jahili poets"
which translates to "The poets of the period
of ignorance" - used to recite poems with a
high musical rhythm and tone.
Music at that time played an important role
in cultivating the mystique of exorcists and
magicians. It was believed that Jinns
revealed poems to poets and music to
musicians.The Choir at the time served as a
pedagologial tool where the educated poets
would recite their poems. Singing was not
thought to be the work of these intellectuals
and was instead entrusted to women with
beautiful voices (i.e. Al-Khansa) who would
learn how to play some instruments used at
that time (i.e. lute, drum, Oud, rebab,
etc...) and then perform the songs while
respecting the poetic metre.It should be
noted that the compositions were simple and
every singer would sing in a single maqam.
Among the notable songs of the period were
the "huda" from which the ghina' derived, the
nasb, sanad, and rukbani.
Al-Andalus
Bayad plays the oud to The Lady. from the
Riyad & Bayad , Arabic taleMain article:
Andalusian classical music
By the 11th century, Moorish Spain had become
a center for the manufacture of instruments.
These goods spread gradually throughout
France, influencing French troubadours, and
eventually reaching the rest of Europe. The
English words lute, rebec, guitar, organ and
naker are derived from Arabic oud, rabab,
qitara, urghun and nagqara'.
The Arabs invented the Ghazal (love song),
often used since in Arabic music. Al-Ghazali
(1059 - 1111) wrote a treatise on music in
Persia which declared, "Ecstasy means the
state that comes from listening to music".
The oud was popular between the tenth and
sixteenth centuries then fell into disuse,
enjoying renewed popularity in the nineteenth
century.
Sixteenth century
Bartol Gyurgieuvits (1506 - 1566) spent 13
years as a slave in the Ottoman empire. After
escaping, he published De Turvarum ritu et
caermoniis in Amsterdam in 1544. It is one of
the first European books to describe music in
Islamic society. In India, the Islamic Mughal
emperors ruled both Muslims and Hindus. The
greatest of these, Akbar (1542 - 1605) had a
team of at least fifty musicians, thirty-six
of whom are known to us by name. The origins
of the "belly dance" are very obscure, as
depictions and descriptions are rare. It may
have originated in Persia or Turkey, possibly
developing within the harems. Essential
elements of belly dancing are the zills
(finger cymbals). Examples have been found
from 200 BC, suggesting a possible
pre-Islamic origin.
Female Harem
Slavery was widespread around the world. Just
as in the Roman empire, slaves were often
brought into the Arab world from Africa.
Black slaves from Zanzibar were noted in the
eleventh century for the quality of their
song and dance. The "Epistle on Singing
Girls", written in Baghdad in 9 CE satirizes
the excessive money that could be made by
singers. The author mentioned an Abyssinian
girl who fetched 120,000 dinars at an auction
- far more than an ordinary slave. A festival
in 8 CE is mentioned as having fifty singing
slave-girls with lutes who acted as back-up
musicians for a singer called Jamilia. In
1893, "Little Egypt", a belly-dancer from
Syria, appeared at the Chicago world's fair
and caused a sensation.
Male instrumentalists
Musicians in Aleppo, 18th century.Male
instrumentalists were condemned in a treatise
in 9 CE. They were associated with vices such
as chess, love poetry, wine drinking and
homosexuality. Many Persian treatises on
music were burned by zealots. Following the
invasion of Egypt, Napoleon commissioned
reports on the state of Ottoman culture.
Villoteau's account reveals that there were
guilds of male instrumentalists, who played
to male audiences, and "learned females," who
sang and played for women. The instruments
included the oud, the kanun (zither) and the
ney (flute). By 1800, several instruments
that were first encountered in Turkish
military bands had been adopted into European
classical orchestras: the piccolo, the cymbal
and the kettle drum. The santur or hammered
dulcimer was cultivated within Persian
classical schools of music that can be traced
back to the middle of 19 CE. There was no
written notation for the santur until the
1970s. Everything was learned face-to-face .
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| Godin Guitar LGXT with GR 20 for sale |
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| ROLAND GR-20 USED BY JOOP WOLTERS |
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I made a composition showing some of the
sounds and posabilties from the gr-20
guitarsynth all keyboard recordings in this
song are done with the gr-20.. It is a great
tool to give your composing/playing more
depth..Absoluut great tool for studio and
live, and it's diversity is a blessing in the
sky for me due to the fact that i like
diversity in style so much!!!
For me one of the best things i ever could
buy..!!
cheers, joOp wolters
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