Friday, November 4, 2011

Classical Eastern Music

In the comments to this post, Jon Silpayamanant, multi-talented cellist, and I, got into a fascinating discussion of genres, notation and Turkish music. He sent me this video of a performance in the Cairo Opera House, which is like a Middle Eastern cello concerto:


Here is Jon's blog, which is well worth having a look at.
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  1. Jon SilpayamanantNovember 5, 2011 at 12:30 PM

    Thanks, Bryan--this post of mine may help some folks understand the continuum between Western works written in Arabic style to actual Arabic repertoire: http://silpayamanant.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/sunday-spotlight-on-the-non-western-cello-the-cello-in-arabic-orchestras/

    And I absolutely made saw that analogy to this being an Arabic Cello Concerto in this post (which also includes another performance by the cellist from the same concert) here: http://silpayamanant.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/what-if-the-concerto-developed-in-egypt-rather-than-italy/

    Hope this, in addition to the discussion we had, helps give some context for folks! And thanks for the mention!

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