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Salim Fergani
Cheikh Salim Fergani (Arabic الشيخ سليم فرقاني) (born 1953 in Constantine, Algeria) is an Algerian oud player and singer. Career He is a notable performer of ma'luf music, and has recorded various CDs for the Pneuma label of Eduardo Paniagua Eduardo Paniagua (born 1952 in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish architect and musician, specializing in medieval Spanish music. Between 1966 and 1983, he was a member of the group Atrium Musicae de Madrid, led by his older brother Gregorio, playing win .... He is the son of the Algerian musician Mohamed Tahar Fergani.'' Musiques de toutes les Afriques'' ed. Gérald Arnaud, Henri Lecomte - 2006 "A Constantine, les musiciens juifs et arabes ont également longtemps coexisté, avec de grandes figures comme Mohamed el-Kourd, Cheikh Raymond, Simone Tamar, Hadj Mohamed Tahar Fergani et son fils Cheikh Salim Fergani." References Oud players 1953 births Living people People from Constantine, Algeria 20th-century Algerian male si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantine, Algeria
Constantine ( ar, قسنطينة '), also spelled Qacentina or Kasantina, is the capital of Constantine Province in northeastern Algeria. During Roman times it was called Cirta and was renamed "Constantina" in honor of emperor Constantine the Great. It was the capital of the French department of Constantine until 1962. Located somewhat inland, Constantine is about from the Mediterranean coast, on the banks of the Rhumel River. Constantine is regarded as the capital of eastern Algeria and the commercial center of its region, and it has a population of about 450,000 (938,475Office National des Statistiques, Recensement General de la Population et de l’Habitat 2008 2008 population census. Accessed on 2016-01-27. with the agglomeration), making it the thir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ma'luf
''Ma'luf'' ( ar, مألوف, acquainted, familiar ''Ma'lūf'') is a genre of art music in the Andalusian classical music tradition of Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia. It is of Iberian origin and was introduced to the Maghreb The Maghreb (; ar, الْمَغْرِب, al-Maghrib, lit=the west), also known as the Arab Maghreb ( ar, المغرب العربي) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of North Africa and the Arab world. The region includes Algeria, ... by Andalusian refugees.''Encyclopedia Americana'' Scholastic Library Publishing - 2006 "The most renowned Tunisian art form is the maluf, a song of Spanish origin introduced by Andalusian refugees." References *Davis, Ruth (1996). "The Art/Popular Music Paradigm and the Tunisian Ma'lūf." ''Popular Music'', v. 15, no. 3, Middle East Issue (October 1996), pp. 313-323. *Davis, Ruth (1997). "Traditional Arab Music Ensembles in Tunis: Modernizing Al-Turath in the Shadow of Egypt." ''Asian Music'', v. 28, no. 2 (Spring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Paniagua
Eduardo Paniagua (born 1952 in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish architect and musician, specializing in medieval Spanish music. Between 1966 and 1983, he was a member of the group Atrium Musicae de Madrid, led by his older brother Gregorio, playing wind instruments and percussion. More recently he has been a founding member of the groups Cálamus and Hoquetus which specialize in the music of Al-Andalus (Arabic Andalusia). In 1994, he created the group Música Antigua to perform and record the Cantigas de Santa Maria. In the same year he also founded the group Ibn Báya Ensemble together with the oud player Omar Metioui, for the performance and recording of Andalusian music. Other regular collaborators include Moroccan singers Said Belcadi, Mohammed El-Arabi Serghini, and the Algerian oud player Salim Fergani. Paniagua also founded and currently manages the record label Pneuma through which he has published a number of his own recordings. Some of the recordings are reissues of ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oud Players
, image=File:oud2.jpg , image_capt=Syrian oud made by Abdo Nahat in 1921 , background= , classification= *String instruments *Necked bowl lutes , hornbostel_sachs=321.321-6 , hornbostel_sachs_desc=Composite chordophone sounded with a plectrum , developed=Islamic Golden Age , range= , related= * Angélique *Archlute *Barbat (lute) *Baglamadaki *Bağlama *Biwa *Bouzouki *Cobza *Cümbüş * Daguangxian *Đàn tỳ bà *Dombra *Domra *Dutar *Kobza *Lavta *Liuqin *Lute *Mandocello *Mandola *Mandolin *Mandolute *Pandura *Pipa * Qanbus * Rud *Setar *Tanbur *Tanbur (Turkish) *Tar (Azerbaijani instrument) *Tembûr *Theorbo *Torban The oud ( ar, عود, translit=ʿūd, ; so, kaban or so, cuud, label=none) is a short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have five or seven courses, with 10 or 13 strings respectively. The oud is ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Births
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that agriculture will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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People From Constantine, Algeria
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