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Kurdish music, the Glossary

Kurdish music refers to music performed in the Kurdish languages and Zaza-Gorani languages.^[1]

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Kurdish folklore

Arabic music

Arabic music (al-mūsīqā al-ʿarabīyyah) is the music of the Arab world with all its diverse music styles and genres.

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Armenians

Armenians (hayer) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.

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Ba'athist Iraq

Ba'athist Iraq, officially the Iraqi Republic (1968–1992) and later the Republic of Iraq (1992–2003), was the Iraqi state between 1968 and 2003 under the rule of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.

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The bağlama or saz is a family of plucked string instruments and long-necked lutes used in Ottoman classical music, Turkish folk music, Turkish Arabesque music, Azerbaijani music, Bosnian music (Sevdalinka), Kurdish music, and Armenian music.

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Baghdad

Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.

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Composer

A composer is a person who writes music.

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Daf

Daf (دف), also known as dâyere and riq, is a Middle Eastern (mainly Iranian) frame drum musical instrument, used in popular and classical music in South and Central Asia.

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Dengbêj

Dengbêjî is a Kurdish music genre sung by Dengbêj. Kurdish music and Dengbêj are Kurdish culture.

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Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.

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Duduk

The duduk (դուդուկ) or tsiranapogh (ծիրանափող, meaning "apricot-made wind instrument"), is a double reed woodwind instrument made of apricot wood originating from Armenia.

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Elegiac

The adjective elegiac has two possible meanings.

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Farnham

Farnham is a market town and civil parish in Surrey, England, around southwest of London.

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Flute

The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Human voice

The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling.

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Indiana University Press

Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences.

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Karapetê Xaço

Karapetê Xaço or Karabêtê Xaço or Gerabêtê Xaço (Կարապետ Խաչո) (September 3, 1900Salihe Kevirbiri, Bir Çığlığın Yüzyılı: Karapetê Xaço, Si Yayınları, İstanbul, 2002,, or 1903 or 1908 - January 15, 2005), was an Armenian singer of traditional Kurdish Dengbêj music.

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Kaval

The kaval is a chromatic end-blown oblique flute traditionally played throughout the Balkans (in Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Southern Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Northern Greece, and elsewhere) and Anatolia (including Turkey, Kurdistan and Armenia).

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Kemenche

Kemenche (kemençe) or Lyra is a name used for various types of stringed bowed musical instruments originating in the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly in Greece, Armenia, Iran, Turkey, and Azerbaijan.

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Komitas

Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas (Կոմիտաս; 22 October 1935), was an Ottoman-Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of the Armenian national school of music.

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Kurdish language

Kurdish (Kurdî, کوردی) is a Northwestern Iranian language or group of languages spoken by Kurds in the region of Kurdistan, namely in Turkey, northern Iraq, northwest and northeast Iran, and Syria. Kurdish music and Kurdish language are Kurdish culture.

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Kurdish melodies

"Kurdish melodies (translation, Awazên Kurdî) is a collection of Kurdish folk songs collected and transcribed by Armenian composer Komitas during field work among Kurds and published in December 1903.

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Kurdish music

Kurdish music refers to music performed in the Kurdish languages and Zaza-Gorani languages. Kurdish music and Kurdish music are Kurdish culture and Kurdish folklore.

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Kurdish tanbur

Kurdish tanbur (translit) or tanbour a fretted string instrument, is an initial and main form of the tanbūr instrument family, used by the Kurds.

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Melancholia

Melancholia or melancholy (from µέλαινα χολή.,Burton, Bk. I, p. 147 meaning black bile) is a concept found throughout ancient, medieval, and premodern medicine in Europe that describes a condition characterized by markedly depressed mood, bodily complaints, and sometimes hallucinations and delusions.

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Music of Armenia

The music of Armenia (հայկական երաժշտություն haykakan yerazhshtut’yun) has its origins in the Armenian highlands, dating back to the 3rd millennium BCE, and is a long-standing musical tradition that encompasses diverse secular and religious, or sacred, music (such as the sharakan Armenian chant and taghs, along with the indigenous khaz musical notation).

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Music of Turkey

The roots of traditional music in Turkey span across centuries to a time when the Seljuk Turks migrated to Anatolia and Persia in the 11th century and contains elements of both Turkic and pre-Turkic influences.

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Oboe

The oboe is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument.

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Pasture

Pasture (from the Latin pastus, past participle of pascere, "to feed") is land used for grazing.

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Phonograph

A phonograph, later called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910), and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of recorded sound.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_music

Also known as Music of Iraqi Kurdistan, Music of Kurdistan, Qernête.