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  Buryatia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Buryatia is located in the South-Central region of Siberia along the eastern shore of Lake Baikal.
Buryatia is located on the shores of the Lake Baikal (60% of the shore line).
The area of the modern day Buryatia was first colonized in the 1600s by Russians in search of wealth, furs and gold.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Buryatia   (491 words)

  
 Music of Russia Encyclopedia Article @ RussianWealth.com (Russian Wealth)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
During the period of Soviet domination, music was highly scrutinized and kept within certain boundaries of content and innovation.
The Buryats of the far east is known for distinctive folk music which uses the two-stringed horsehead fiddle, or morin khur.
Tatar folk music have rhythmic peculiarities and pentatonic intonation in common with nations of the Volga area, who are ethnically Finno-Ugric and Turkic.
www.russianwealth.com /encyclopedia/Music_of_Russia   (1625 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Buryatia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Buryatia is located in the Irkutsk Time Zone (IRKT/IRKST).
Over 80% of republic's territory is located in the mountainous region, including the Baikal Mountains on the northern shoes of Lake Baikal.
The higher education institutions of the republic include Buryatia State University, Buryat State Academy of Agriculture, East Siberian State Academy of Arts and Culture, and East Siberian State Technological Institute.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Buryatia   (541 words)

  
 Europe-Asia Festival in Kazan
An important element of the festival was presenting music with distinctly Tatar exoticism, for the most part derived from Tatar folk music traditions as well as inspired by Tatar folk tales, epic stories or the Muslim religious tradition.
The music was traditional ballet music, rather neo-classical in its harmonic language, episodic in its form, with contrasting dynamic content, rather traditional textures, at times joined with more modern sounding harmonies and a limited amount of extended techniques, for instance the violins playing on the other side of the bridge.
The music conveyed adequately the mood of the poem, the text of which was very thoroughly pronounced by the singers.
www.newmusicon.org /v10n1/v101rovner.htm   (5523 words)

  
 The Arcane Archive - Tantra in Music
It is heard in the bhapang of eastern Rajasthan, in the sound of the left-hand head of the dholak and mrdangam, and in a family of hourglass drums with variable tension heads, including the huruk (north India), the udukku (south India), whose similar names evidence their common origin, and the damaru, found throughout India.
Music and dance in film perform much the same function as in classical Sanskrit drama, that is, to provide an interlude during which the action moves forward in time.
In his short Musical Treatise (Rol-mo'i bstan-bcos), which has been quoted continuously since the 13th century, the 'Great scholar of Sa-skya [monastery]', Sa-skya Pandita, describes the qualities of the chant that will be 'pleasant to hear' (snyan-pa), with sweetness, a relaxed character and clarity of enunciation.
arcane-archive.org /religion/tantra-in-music-1.php   (10257 words)

  
 Music of Russia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Main article: music of Buryatia The Buryats of the far east is known for distinctive folk music which uses the two-stringed horsehead fiddle, or morin khur.
Main article: Music of Chechnya Chechnya best-known folk tradition is the polyphonic choir, similar to traditions in neighboring nations of the Caucasus, especially the Georgians.
Main article: Music of Tatarstan Tatar folk music have rhythmic peculiarities and pentatonic intonation in common with nations of the Volga area, who are ethnically Finno-Ugric and Turkic.
music-of-russia.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888   (1647 words)

  
 Harvard Asia Quarterly - Buryat Musical Traditions in the Post-Soviet Era   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Buryatia, an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation, lies in south-central Siberia near Lake Baikal and the Mongolian-Chinese border.
In settlements far from urban centers, the older generation continued to practice the rituals of Buddhism and shamanism, and true "folk" music, music sung by the people for the people, was performed and enjoyed, if only by grandmothers.
Because musical traditions are frequently associated with a particular kind of social or work activity, when the way of doing things changed, so did the musical traditions.
www.asiaquarterly.com /content/view/59/40   (2408 words)

  
 Baden Family CD Collection: World Music
Music from the four corners: gypsies of russia [allegro all cotwe 116] [j095]
Music from the four corners: portugal [allegro all cotwe 121] '00 [j040]
Music from the four corners: morocco [allegro all cotwe 111] '99 [j040]
www.boston-baden.com /hazel/Xmas/cdiscs07.htm   (507 words)

  
 Friends: Russia-Mongolia-China Trip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sayan was born in the town of Aginsk, the main center of the Aginsk-Buryat Autonomous Region.
Erdeny was born in Verkhny Torei, a small town in southern Buryatia near the Mongolian border.
He's has always been a lover of music and musical instruments and has turned his Broadway loft into a vast collection of music making devices from around the world.
dczward.dreamhost.com /trip/friends.html   (1196 words)

  
 Alexander Knapp
In 1993, he was invited to present the first-ever series of lectures on Jewish music at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.
His anthology of essays on Jewish music published by the Music Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Arts in 1998 is the first and only book in the Chinese language devoted exclusively to aspects of Jewish music.
Among the many topics listed for Jewish Music, we find Temple Chant: Before and After, Jewish Music in the First Century, The Golden Age of the Cantor, The Life and Music of Ernest Bloch, and The Music of Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.
www.writersontheedge.org /knapp.html   (331 words)

  
 WFMU Transpacific Sound Paradise: Playlists & Real Audio Archives
: Music for the oral cavity with vocalizer Akim Ndlovu and jawharpist Lena Strayhorn.
Fantcha is the adopted musical daughter of legendary Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora.
Raquy's primary area of interest is Middle Eastern music and her primary instrument is the dumbek (with which she gives a short demonstration).
www.wfmu.org /Playlists/Robw/index2001.html   (2160 words)

  
 Buryatia info here at en.after-gasoline-alley.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Buryatia is located in the South-Central field of Siberia forth the eastern shore of Lake Baikal.
Buryatia's mundane capital embrace gold, tungsten, zinc, uranium & more.
The supreme of dominion in Buryatia is the President, who's elected for a four-year term.
en.after-gasoline-alley.info /Buryatia   (702 words)

  
 What's New In World Music
Since music cannot only be about tradition, they adapt melodies from movies of Bollywood and Hollywood and adapt international radio hits to their own style.
Those were the two main ingredients that made up Mozambique's first guitars and the origins of marrabenta - a form of musical rebellion, first against the colonizers and then against the aggressors to the south that propped up Mozambique's civil war.
This masterpiece of early Soviet cinema was lost to the world for 70 years, censored beyond belief by Russian and British officials seeking to cover their country's hideous violence in the region.
www.urbanmozaik.com /2001.nov_issue/nov01_music.html   (1723 words)

  
 Harp Spectrum
She has a classical music background and has been a rock and jazz-blues singer as well as a presenter of educational programs on harps in elementary and secondary schools.
For most of her musical life she has collected and played traditional Irish and Scottish music, and has performed and taught from coast to coast, Alaska to Florida to Maine.
The Chieftains have always fostered the spirit of inclusiveness that lies at the heart of the Irish musical tradition, and I think that it was with this gesture that they truly honored the generous and wide ranging spirit of Derek Bell.
www.harpspectrum.org /harpworks/chieftans.shtml   (11775 words)

  
 Recording review: Uragsha: Music From Buryatia And Mongolia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Neither Mongolia nor Buryatia are at immediate risk of inundation by western tourists.
From where we sit, both can be used to define "remoteness." Mongolia is located at the center of Asia, between China and Siberia, and Buryatia is in Eastern Siberia near Lake Baikal, to the north of Mongolia.
The recordings are a bit "raw", just as I like them, and devoid of the tendencies to popularize that too often appear in a world music recording.
www.rootsworld.com /reviews/uragsha.html   (289 words)

  
 Yara Arts Store
They are composers and published authors, who have created and performed in a number of original theatre pieces in the Buryat language.
BATTUVSHIN was born in the Bulgan province of Mongolia and now lives in Ulan Ude, Buryatia.
He is uniquely talented on the limbe and was a Gold Medallist at the International Folk Music Festival in Korea and the Grand Prizewinner at the All-Mongolian Flute Contest.
www.brama.com /yara/uragsha.html   (944 words)

  
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 Music of Uzbekistan
Uzbek classical music is called shashmaqam, which arose in Bukhara in the late 16th century when that city was a regional capital.
Interludes of spoken Sufi poetry interrupt the music, typically beginning at a low register and gradually ascending to a climax before calming back down to the beginning tone.
The BBC Musical Nomad A travelogue site with extensive insights and recordings of Krygyz, Kazak and Uzbek music.
www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Music_of_Uzbekistan   (179 words)

  
 Sakewewak Artists' Collective - Members Showcase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sayan and Erzhena Zhambalov are the premier artists of their generation in Ulan Ude, Siberia and have been recognized as Honored Artists of the Republic for their achievements.
They perform both traditional and original contemporary music in Buryatia.
Zhambalov is a composer and singer named as the first runner-up for the Best Composer of Buryatia of the 20th century.
www.sakewewak.org /members/uragsha.htm   (301 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mongolia - Far East & Asia: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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Mongolia: Living Music of the Steppes by Various Artists - International - Far East - General (Audio CD - 1997)
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 Buryatia Search Engine
Club Firn is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the development of civil society in order to help solve social, economic, and ecological problems in the Republic of Buryatia.
An exploration of Siberian sacred traditions and their links to storytelling and music in the West.
Directorate of the Rosnedvizhimost for the Republic of Buryatia
www.searchenginecolossus.com /BuryatiaSE.html   (377 words)

  
 Buy Vocal Music Best Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 Buy Mongolia: Living Music of the Steppes, Mongolian Instrumental Music, Tsagaan Star, Vocal & Instrumental Music ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The music reflects the traditional nomadic lifestyle of the Mongolian people, and is strongly evocative of the country's windswept steppes and the broad expanses of the Gobi.
As in neighboring Tuva, several pieces are performed in the khoomei style of overtone singing, where vocal manipulation enables a singer to produce two tones simultaneously--a deep drone ornamented by a movable series of overtones.
The CD booklet provides lyric translations and informative liner notes discussing Mongolia's music, land, culture, and history.
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