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Thread #44104   Message #647748
Posted By: M.Ted
11-Feb-02 - 08:58 PM
Thread Name: Arabic Influence on Renaissance Music?
Subject: RE: Arabic Influence on Renaissance Music?
There is a "traditional" music form, mostly in Macedonia(but probably into Albania, Greece, and Bulgaria) called "Chalgia" that is really a classical Turkish ensemble--Oud, clarinet, fiddle, dumbek, ney(a kind of flute), dumbek(goblet drum), qanun(a sort of zither), and perhaps a bouzouki like instrument,which plays the turkish music, but using western tempered scales--very cool--most of the Bulgarian folk music has a much more strident pulse than Turkish music, though--