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Thread #50484   Message #2514661
Posted By: Jack Campin
13-Dec-08 - 08:24 PM
Thread Name: Help: Cello in Traditional Music
Subject: RE: Help: Cello in Traditional Music
Something completely different. The Turkish cellist Ugur Isik, here doing Ottoman classical pieces with the kemence player Derya Turkan:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fxWD63AP044
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KW7vW_ld558

The related links will take you to folk tunes as well ("Haydar Haydar" and "Kizilirmak"), but I particularly like these.

Demonstration (by one of the great figures in Ottoman music, scratchy 78 sound) of just how microtonal you can get on a cello:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd74ZGJi3wQ

Or try this documentary about a kind of Turkish folk cello (or maybe tenor violin):

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=flCUGYW4zVM

The tragically melancholy tune at about 5 minutes in is "Burasi Mustur", a lament for a village in Anatolia whose young men were almost all killed fighting in Yemen in WW1. The iklig seems specially designed to express hopeless despair.