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Nagara (Drum)
The ''nagara'' or ''naghara'' is a drum used in India. There are several types of naghara, which is considered to be the lead instrument in mandir ceremonies and weddings. These are typically two drums, one treble and one bass and are played with sticks. In Sikh traditions, the naghara is used as a large singular ceremonial drum in Gatka performances and was used historically in battle. In Central Asia and the Middle East, the naghara is considered to be only one drum and differs in size and goes by various names such as " boyuk nagara" (big naghara), " cura nagara" (small naghara), "chiling naghara" (played with drum sticks), " Qoltuq nagara" (drum held under the arm), gosha naghara (Naqareh) and "el naghara" (hand naghara). Nagada (Indian Drum) is a percussion instrument used for its rhythmic sounds.. Nakara is a festival instrument mostly used in South Indian Hindu temples. The size may vary and this instrument may be kept near the entrance of the South Indian Hindu temp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zurna
The zurna is a double reed wind instrument played in Central Asia, West Asia, the Caucasus, Southeast Europe and parts of North Africa. It is also used in Sri Lanka. It is usually accompanied by a davul (bass drum) in Armenian, Anatolian and Assyrian folk music. The zurna is largely played in Turkey. Etymology and terminology A folk etymology explains that the name is derived from Persian "" (''surnāy''), composed of "" (''sūr'') meaning "banquet, feast", and (''nāy'') meaning "reed, pipe". The term is attested in the oldest Turkic records, as "''suruna''" in the 12th and 13th century Codex Cumanicus (CCM fol. 45a). Zurna has also been suggested as a possible borrowing from Hittite or Luwian into the Armenian language, where Arm. զուռնա ''zuṙna'' is compared to Luwian ''zurni'' "horn". Origins The zurna was said to originate from Central Asia and ancient Asia Minor (Anatolia). Images of the zurna are visible in stone reliefs and artwork by the Hittites, who wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goatskin (material)
Goatskin refers to the skin of a goat, which by long term usage, is denoted by the term ''Morocco leather''. Kidskin, used for gloves, shoes and other accessories, is traditionally goatskin, although other leathers such as sheep and kangaroo can be used to make kid. Tanned leather from goatskin is considered extremely durable and is commonly used to make rugs (for example in Indonesia) and carpet binding. It is often used for gloves, boots, and other products that require a soft hide. Kid gloves, popular in Victorian times, are still made today. It has been a major material for leather bookbindings for centuries, and the oldest European binding, that of the St Cuthbert Gospel in the British Library is in red goatskin. Goatskin is used for a traditional Spanish container for wine bota bag (or called goatskin). Traditional kefir was made in bags from goatskin. Non-tanned goatskin is used for parchment or for drumheads or sounding boards of some musical instruments, e.g., mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Instruments Of Georgia (country)
A rich variety of musical instruments are known from Georgia (country), Georgia. Among the most popular instruments are blown instruments, like the Larchemi, soinari, known in Mingrelia, Samegrelo as larchemi (Georgian panpipe), stviri (flute), gudastviri (bagpipe), string instruments like Changi (harp), changi (harp), Choghur, chonguri (four stringed unfretted long neck lute), panduri (three stringed fretted long neck lute), bowed chuniri, known also as chianuri, and a variety of drums. Georgian musical instruments are traditionally overshadowed by the rich vocal traditions of Georgia, and subsequently received much less attention from Georgian (and Western) scholars. Dimitri Arakishvili and particularly Manana Shilakadze contributed to the study of musical instrument in Georgia.Manana Shilakadze. 1970. Georgian Folk Instruments and Instrumental Music. Tbilisi: Metsniereba List of instruments Wind instruments: Larchemi, larchemi/soinari, salamuri, pilili, Tulum (bagpipe), gudas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Musical Instruments
Persian musical instruments or Iranian musical instruments can be broadly classified into three categories: Persian traditional music, classical, Persian Symphonic Music, Western and Iranian folk music, folk. Most of Persian musical instruments spread in the former Persian Empires states all over the Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia and through adaptation, relations, and trade, in Europe and far regions of Asia. In the ancient era, the Silk Road had an effective role in this distribution. String instruments Orchestral *Tar (lute), Tar *Setar *Kamancheh *Ghaychak *barbat (lute), Barbat *Chang (instrument)/Angular harp *Santoor (Persian instrument), Santoor *Qanun (instrument), Qānūn * Shurangiz Safavid-style portrait, female musician plays a tar.jpg, Tar Woman with a setar, Safavid Iran, Isfahan (ca. 1600-1610).jpg, Setar, ca. 1610 A court musician playing the kemanche, painting by Abul Qasim, Qajar Iran.jpg, Kamancheh Woman playing a santur, Qajar Iran, artist named Ahma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azerbaijani Musical Instruments
Azerbaijani traditional musical instruments are a family of ancient string, wind and percussion instruments used in the performance of Azerbaijani folk music, Azerbaijani traditional music. Types of instruments Instruments used in traditional Azerbaijani music include the stringed instruments ''Tar (lute), tar'' (skin faced lute), the ''kamancha'' (skin faced spike fiddle), the ''oud'', originally ''barbat'', and the ''baglama, saz'' (long necked lute); the double-reed wind instrument ''Balaban (instrument), balaban'', the frame drum ''ghaval'', the cylindrical double faced drum ''nagara (drum), nagara'' (''davul''), and the ''goshe nagara'' (''naqareh'') (pair of small kettle drums). Other instruments include the ''garmon'' (small accordion), ''Dilli kaval, tutek'' (whistle flute), and ''daf'' (frame drum). The zurna and naghara duo is played at weddings and other local celebrations. Instruments can be played individually, in an improvisational manner, in ensembles, during tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Of Georgia (country)
Georgia has rich and still vibrant traditional music, primarily known for arguably the earliest polyphonic tradition of the Christian world. Situated on the border of Europe and Asia, Georgia is also the home of a variety of urban singing styles with a mixture of native polyphony, Middle Eastern monophony and late European harmonic languages. Georgian performers are well represented in the world's leading opera troupes and concert stages. Folk music The folk music of Georgia consists of at least fifteen regional styles, known in Georgian musicology and ethnomusicology as "musical dialects". According to Edisher Garaqanidze, there are sixteen regional styles in Georgia. These sixteen regions are traditionally grouped into two, eastern and western Georgian groups. The Eastern Georgian group of musical dialects consists of the two biggest regions of Georgia, Kartli and Kakheti (Garakanidze united them as "Kartli-Kakheti"); several smaller north-east Georgian mountain regions, K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani music ( Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan musiqisi) is the musical tradition of the Azerbaijani people from the Azerbaijan Republic. Azerbaijani music has evolved under the badge of monody, producing rhythmically diverse melodies.Энциклопедический музыкальный словарь, 2-е изд., Москва, 1966 (''Encyclopedical Music Dictionary'' (1966-1967), 2nd ed., Moscow) Music from Azerbaijan has a branch mode system, where chromatisation of major and minor scales is of great importance. Classical music In 1920, Azerbaijani classical music had undergone a renaissance and the Baku Academy of Music was founded to give classical musicians the same support as folk musicians. Modern-day advocates of Western classical music in Azerbaijani include Farhad Badalbeyli, Fidan Gasimova and Franghiz Alizadeh. Opera and Ballet The emergence of opera and ballet in Azerbaijan is associated with the Imperial Russian and Soviet eras of Azerbaijani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Musical Instruments
Turkish musical instruments are the traditional and modern instruments used in the folk music, musical traditions of the Turkish people. They play a central role in Turkish folk music, Ottoman classical music, and modern Turkish compositions. These instruments can be categorized into three main groups: String instrument, stringed, Wind instrument, wind, and Percussion instrument, percussion instruments. Stringed instruments * Bağlama, Bağlama (Saz) * Tanbur * Kemençe * Qanun (instrument), Kanun * Oud, Ud * Ahenk * Çeng * Classical kemençe * Kemençe of the Black Sea, Karadeniz kemençe * Cümbüş * Yaylı tambur * Rebab / Kabak kemane * Sine kemanı * Cura (instrument), Cura * Komuz * Rud * Lavta * Mugni * Santur * Shahrud, Şehrud * Tar (string instrument), Tar Wind instruments * Zurna * Tulum * Mey (instrument), Mey * Düdük * Kaval * Çığırtma * Karkm * Dankiyo * Gaida, Gayda * Arghul, Çifte * Ney * Turkish ney * Sipsi * Dilli kaval * Tin whistle, Dilli ney * Miskal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian Percussion Instruments
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Hand Drums
A hand drum is any type of drum that is typically played with the bare hand rather than a stick, mallet, hammer, or other type of beater. Types The following descriptions allude to traditional versions of the drums. Modern synthetic versions are available for most if not all of the drums listed through various manufacturers. Middle and Near East *The Tar (drum), tar is a frame drum common in Middle Eastern music. *The tambourine is a frame drum with jingles attached to the shell. *The daf and the dayereh are Iranian frame drums. *The ghaval is the Azerbaijani frame drum. *The tonbak is the Persian goblet drum. *The doumbek is a goblet shaped drum used in Arabic, Jewish, Assyrian, Persian, Balkan, Greek, Armenian, Azeri and Turkish music. * Mirwas Africa *The most common African music, African drum known to westerners is the djembe, a large, single-headed drum with a goblet shape. *The Ashiko is another African drum in the shape of a truncated cone. Similar to the Djembe it is ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drums
The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a percussion mallet, to produce sound. There is usually a resonant head on the underside of the drum. Other techniques have been used to cause drums to make sound, such as the thumb roll. Drums are the world's oldest and most ubiquitous musical instruments, and the basic design has remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years. Drums may be played individually, with the player using a single drum, and some drums such as the djembe are almost always played in this way. Others are normally played in a set of two or more, all played by one player, such as bongo drums and timpani. A number of different drums together ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
