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	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Music of Sakha
		Native musical instruments: The pondur is the oldest of musical instruments of the Chechens, comprising of three chords and a wooden casing.
		Sakha, or Yakut, is a Turkic language with around 363,000 speakers that is spoken in the Sakha Republic in the Russian Federation.
		Sakha is known for its climate extremes, with the Verkhoyansk Range being the coldest area in the northern hemisphere.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Music-of-Sakha (944 words)

	Sakha Cyclopedia @ ArtQuilt.com (Art Quilt) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic (Russian: Респу́блика Саха́ (Яку́тия); Yakut: Саха Республиката) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic).
		Sakha is the statoid with the largest territorial area in the world with 3,103,200 square kilometres.
		The members of religious groups who were exiled to Sakha in the second half of the 19th century began to grow wheat, oats, and potatoes.
	www.artquilt.com /encyclopedia/Sakha (1006 words)

	Sakha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The '''Sakha (Yakutia) Republic''' ({{lang-ruРеспу́блика Саха́ (Яку́тия)}}; Yakut: Саха Республиката) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic).
		Sakha stretches to the Henrietta Islands in the far north and is washed by the Laptev and Eastern Siberian Seas of the Arctic Ocean.
		Sakha's greatest mountain range, the Verkhoyansk Range, runs parallel and east of the Lena River, forming a great arc that begins the Sea of Okhotsk and ends in the Laptev Sea.
	q-basic.xodox.de /Sakha (1170 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Music of Russia
		During the period of Soviet domination, music was highly scrutinized and kept within certain boundaries of content and innovation.
		The Mighty Handful and the Russian Music Society were rivals, with the former embracing a Russian national identity and the latter musically conservative.
		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.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Russian_music (1568 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Music of Khakassia
		The Khakas people are Turkic, and their culture, including music, has some similarities to the culture of Tuva, a neighboring region in Central Asia.
		Other elements of Buryat music, such as the use of fourths both in tuning instruments and in songs, and pentatonic scales, reveal similarities to music from Siberia and Eastern Asia.
		Narrative structures are a part of most Buryat folk music, often in the form of epic tales, and the last song of famous leaders; these include the Last Song of Rinchin Dorzhin.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Music-of-Khakassia (776 words)

	Music of Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.ask.dyndns.dk (1501 words)

	Tuva
		The music that Tuvans create is a way to communicate with these animals and with the spirits that inhabit all natural things.
		In his liner notes, Levin notes that the music created on this disk should be called "sound mimesis," for it "both reproduces and interacts with the ambient sounds of the natural world." This is exactly what you hear on this disk's nineteen tracks.
		It is music as it must have sounded thousands of years ago, when the only thing separating human beings from extinction was their ability to adapt and to create.
	www.hauntedink.com /almaty/tuva.html (996 words)

	Kazakh Adoptive Families: Music
		The musicians tap into the variously overlapping musical styles of lands stretching from China and India to Iran and Turkey, and the arrangements by Zhao Jiping and Zhao Lin include a mix of instruments from around the world, to add greater color and sonic dimensions.
		It is mainly a vocal music, sung by men, the bakhshy, who accompany themselves with a lute, the dutâr, and/or a fiddle (the ghidjak).
		The music on Rough Guide to the Music of Central Asia ranges from the classical traditions of the region, as hailing from Samarkand and Tashkent, to modern hard rock, as well as all points on the spectrum between the extremes.
	www.kazakhadoptivefamilies.com /music2.html (2966 words)

	CDeMUSIC
		It's the music of a religious path that began with the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria and came to Cuba as part of the 19th century slave trade.
		Richard Dyer-Bennett's lyrical tenor voice and his consummate musicianship bring such vocal quality and talent to this music that his performances of these folk songs are comparable to the finest performances of the art song literature.
		Their music thus includes imitations of sounds reflective of these creatures and objects, as well as human sounds made in proximity to natural objects (such as a cliff).
	www.cdemusic.org /store/cde_search.cfm?keywords=worldmusic (1539 words)

	Tuvinian music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The combination of Ondar's guttural, polyphonic throat singing and country music is at first distracting but eventually gets carried along by the enthusiasm of the participants.
		Tuva is a remote area smack in the center of Asia, nestled in the mountains between Siberia and Mongolia.
		Throat singing and xomuz echo the harmonics of a babbling brook, upturned igil (fiddle) and doshpuluur (lute) replicate the effect of a wind harp with the breeze caressing the strings, and horsemen chant in the saddle, picking up the rhythm of galloping steeds.
	www.spiritdimension.com /magical-music/tuva_music.htm (690 words)

	Improvised Music
		By this I mean that the music wholly or partly consists in the performance or transmission of a ritual, or of a metaphysical structure.
		The difference is that in improvised music, the music is made in performance, and the intervention therefore happens in or around performance.
		Let us imagine for a moment that the map of Western music is a map of the Western mind and that it reflects a reductive order, an imposition of consciousness on the entire matter of human life, and a tendency to substitute the necessarily selective and partial contents of this consciousness for the whole.
	users.unimi.it /~gpiana/dm1/dm1s01th.htm (3623 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 - Awards for World Music 2005 - Jury biogs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Charlie Gillett is a pioneer of world music, having provided first UK airplay on his radio show for a host of African and Caribbean artists, among them Youssou N'Dour, Arrow and Salif Keita, in a broadcasting career that spans thirty years.
		Though she specialised in Indian and Greek music, the music of West Africa and Cuba became the focus of her research after hearing a recording of the kora.
		Misha comes from Pokrovsk in the Republic of Sakha, Siberia.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/awards2005/jury.shtml (1441 words)

	Stepanida Borisova, vocalist, shaman music of Sakha, Yakutia, Siberia
		Stepanida Borissova was born in 1950 in the District of Megino-Khangalaas in the Siberian Republic of Yakutia.
		She received, as well, the Ojunsky prize from the USSR and is a celebrated actress since this time.
		Improvised Music and Siberian Shamanism by Tim Hodgkinson
	www.hulu.de /en/musicians/stepanida_borissova.htm (242 words)

	freejazz.org - Freedom in music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Musical styles are more or less open depending on the number of limitations that the boundaries that define the style create.
		Cecil's music is a fantastically complex and strange environment; some otherwise not terribly interesting players have belonged there, while some otherwise great players don't seem to me to have quite fitted in (Sam Rivers, John Coltrane, and Ronald Shannon Jackson spring to mind).
		If you think that critical comment on music is redundant (a valid point of view) you should say so, and recognise that it deprives you of the right to praise ware's earlier playing as much as it would deprive me of the right to criticise it.
	www.freejazz.org /frejaz8.php (9494 words)

	Museum Khomus
		The Khomus Museum is a wonderful Kingdom of ancient music which was brought to life during the stone age period, having lived up to nowadays due to the charming sound and democracy of the smallest musical instrument in the world - the Khomus (vargan).
		With growth of interest of doctors to a nature of khomus music Yakut traditional medical service made successful attempts to use the Khomus as a matter of cure.
		The All-Union Conference on problems of vargan music, the International Congresses of vargan music were organized in USA 1984, Yakutia 1991, Austria 1998.
	www.sitc.ru /culture/museum/vargan/index_e.html (536 words)

	Kannada Movie News: Upendra Kumar, maker of hit Rajkumar melodies, dies of jaundice.
		This Article is published in Association with "The Music Magazine" and they hold all the copyrights to this Article.
		Upendra Kumar was among Kannada cinema's better-known composers of the last generation, although it cannot be said that the music he made was consistently good.
		The mandolin and the sitar were prominently used in Upendra Kumar's instrumentation, and he was particularly fond of raga Kafi and melodies deriving from that scale.
	www.ourkarnataka.com /kannada/movie/obit_upendra_kumar.htm (459 words)

	La Folia -- Siberia, Russian Federation: Six Discs of Music
		Timbre plays an important rôle in this music, as evidenced in the guttural sounds, yodel techniques, and vocal multiphonics of the singing, as well as in the Jew’s harp playing.
		In addition to everyday songs, round dances, drum music, and epics, the CD includes outstanding recordings of animal imitations and whispery throat techniques.
		I first heard this wonderful music in 1990, when a group of Sakhalin Islanders performed a rare concert at the Asia Society, and wished that some recording was available.
	www.lafolia.com /archive/reigle/reigle199911siberia.html (868 words)

	Turkic Music for Sale - Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Tuva
		Music from the Oasis Towns of Central Asia, by Uyghur musicians from Xinjiang
		"Musical globetrotters listened: Yulduz Usmanova, the 1991 winner of the Kazakhstani music festival 'Azia Dausy' mixes traditional folklore-sounds of her Uzbekistani home on 'Alma Alma' with western pop-elements.
		The microtonal modes in which they play and sing resemble the music heard throughout the Islamic world, although Alevi, the particular faith of the Anatolian people, has historically been at odds with the prevailing Sunni sect in Turkey.
	www.khazaria.com /turkic/cds.html (1201 words)

	Tuva: Buy Live 1, Where Young Grass Grows, Live 2, 60 Horses in My Herd: Old Songs and Tunes of Tuva, Naked Spirit, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Born and raised in Tuva, trained in music but denied credentials, she eventually went to Moscow to seek out the modern world.
		While Sainkho is often relegated to the 'world music' bins usually reserved for folk and pop fusions of folk, she really belongs in the section devoted to free jazz and experimentations by artists like Meredith Monk or Rinde Eckert.
		These traditional songs capture the style and role of music among the scattered herding communities in Tuva, a territory lying to the northwest of Mongolia, where music is part of the relationship of humans with the natural and supernatural worlds.
	music.lovebuygoods.com /CTR_171101/Tuva.html (1049 words)

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		Violinists ensemble of the Sakha Republic's(Yakutia) High School of music is a laureate of four international festivals - contests, laureate of international children fund "Children of Sakha-Asia", grant-aided ensemble of the national fund of revival "Bargary" become more and more popular in Russia as elsewhere, reaching one creative peak after another.
		Judging by deafening success, performance of violinists ensemble of college of music in the best concert halls of Moscow and S.-Petersburg, held during winter holidays in 2001, can be regarded as a real benefit performance for the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).
		"Violinists Ensemble "Vistuosos of Yakutia" is absolutely unique one and very successfully music coollective, which last 10 years have been brought up in the conditions of the boarding school of the Highest school of music of Sakha (Yakutia) Republic".
	www.sitc.ru /violin/e_index.shtml (1273 words)

	Music of Shamans, World Music, Siberia, Sakha CD Shopping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Stepanida Borisova was born in Megino-Khangalaas in Yakutia (it´s called Sakha today), which is in the most northeast part of Russia.
		She has mastered many various stylistic directions of the traditional Yakutian vocal music, which are rooted in Shamanism.
		Both the Hulu Project and she are looking for this type of intregration into their music.
	www.ccnc.de /cd_infos/hulu_project_stepanida_1b.html (500 words)

	culturebase.net \| The international artist database \| search results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Born in Chicago in the USA in 1960 Jean-Paul Bourelly is an unusual singer and guitar virtuoso.
		Born in 1957 in Tunis, Anouar Brahaem is both a traditionalist and a progressive musician.
		He is thought, not only in his homeland Tunisia, to be an outstanding virtuoso on the _d, which he has reinstated as a solo instrument of classical Arab music.
	www.culturebase.net /advanced_artist_result.php?name=&english=true&german=true&danish=true&swedish=true&crossroad=&genre_main=throat-singing&genre=general&country_main=+%23%7C&country=+&city=&instrument=&project=&organisation=&submit=start+search&aq=danish%3Dtrue%26english%3Dtrue%26german%3Dtrue%26swedish%3Dtrue%26genre%3Dgeneral%26&start=51 (358 words)

	Yakuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		'''Yakuts''', self-designation: '''Sakha''', are a Turkic people associated with the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic.
		The Yakut or Sakha language belongs to the
		There are about 363,000 speakers mainly in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the Russian Federation, with some extending to the Amur, Magadan, Sakhalin regions, and the Taimyr and Evenki Autonomous Districts.
	goc.subdomain.de /Yakut (379 words)

	ICE Association
		music is a universal phenomenon, but not a universal language; i.e.
		We, the members of ICE, will strive toward encouraging the use of heart musics, the musical systems that a person learns as a child or youth and that most fully express his or her emotions.
		A person’s heart music may be rural, urban, or include several different music systems.
	www.worldofworship.org /Associations/Association.htm (447 words)

	MetroActive Music \| Tuvan Throat-Singers
		The monks, in turn, found a receptive audience among fans of New Age music in the then-emerging world music scene.
		Tuva, Among the Spirits: Sound, Music, and Nature in Sakha and Tuva (Smithsonian Folkways) offers unprecedented field recordings of songs and nature sounds from the southern Siberian region that serves as a musical wellspring for Tuva.
		"I think this is an important musical technology that for the most part we haven't been made aware of," he says.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/02.11.99/tuva-9906.html (845 words)

	Music From Siberia
		The music is basic, perhaps an unaccompanied singer or single musician, but this reflects the sparseness of their landscape.
		Iz yakutskogo muzikal'nogo fol'klora (Of the Yakut musical folklore)
		(The music of the Chukchi and the Eskimo)
	www.fotuva.org /music/s-discog.html (1199 words)

	Various Artists - Tuva, Among The Spirits: Sound, Music And Nature In Sakha And Tuva: Music-Hills.com
		Music Reviews of Tuva, Among The Spirits: Sound, Music And Nature In Sakha And Tuva
		The interplay between human, animal, and natural sounds here is effortless, and it dramatizes better than any other release I've heard the true spirit of both Tuvan music and Tuvan culture.
		I bought this for Tuvan throat singing and was presented with long periods of silence and perhap's the odd warble in the background!
	www.music-hills.com /Various-Artists/Tuva-Among-The-Spirits-Sound-Music-And-Nature-In-Sakha-And-Tuva-B00000G4OG.htm (541 words)

	Fedora Gogoleva, Albina Degtyaryova,and Olga Podluzhnaya: Summer is Coming / khomus music at cdRoots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The three performers are master practitioners of the Sakha vocal and khomus styles.
		Degtyaryova is outstanding both as singer and khomusist; she teaches the instrument at the National Musical College in Yakutsk.
		Of the 25 tracks, ten are vocal solos or duets, nine are khomus solos, three khomus duos, and three combine voice and khomus in various ways.
	www.cdroots.com /nkk-summer.html (386 words)

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