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 Music of Southeastern Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The music of Southeastern Europe or the Balkans is a type of music distinct from others in Europe.
The music is sometimes characterised by complex rhythm.
The music of the Slavic countries of southeastern Europe is quite significantly different to that the music of Eastern Europe, which includes the Slavic states of the former USSR.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Southeastern_Europe   (263 words)

  
 MP3.com - the source for digital music!
Music was also one of the great anchors of the gypsy community, and many of the music styles of Southeastern Europe show their impact.
Although their music is heavily influenced by the recordings of Abe Ellstein and Dave Tarras in the 1940s and 1950s, their lyrics comment on a wide variety of political and social issues and have led the group to be labeled...
This is wedding music at its best, as Yuri and his band rush through a number of dances at breakneck speed, warbling their instruments all the way.
www.mp3.com /eastern-europe/genre/839/subgenre.html   (1960 words)

  
 Music of Eastern Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eastern Europe is a geographical area populated mainly by ethnic Slavs, as well as other minorities.
Note that no countries from Southeastern Europe and Central Europe have been included in the list below because their music is quite different from that of Eastern Europe.
For the music of these countries, see Music of Southeastern Europe and Music of Central Europe.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Eastern_Europe   (149 words)

  
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The music of Central Europe reflects its dual heritage as a rural, pastoral area and as the center of the great European culture that was nurtured by the court of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Classical music, opera, dance and theater all thrived in the cities of this region, while the people of the countryside retained a strong musical heritage of their own.
Such music is tied strongly to a particular group of people or place, and is only now beginning to be performed by outsiders like the new age musicians who have appropriated Native American traditions, or the musicians in cities who study Appalachian folk.
www.mp3.com /world-reggae/genre/23/styles.html   (3835 words)

  
 University Experts
Judy Lochhead, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Music and a musicologist with a specialty in music written since 1945.
Specific areas of expertise: Music of the Southeastern Europe and the Middle East.
He is known equally for his championship of contemporary music and for his superb chamber music performances, with numerous recordings in each area.
commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu /artman/publish/article_649.shtml   (264 words)

  
 Central Europe Review - Bulgarian Folk Music: May It Fill Your Soul
The music is an interesting mix of the slightly exotic and the slightly familiar.
Traditional music and its arrangement was significant because it signified the Bulgarian nationality, and the way the arrangements were done signified progress into the future.
The wedding music tradition which was very important at the end of the Communist period is represented by at least two recordings, again on the Hannibal/Rycodisc label, of the brilliant clarinetist Ivo Papazov.
www.ce-review.org /99/17/music17_bagust.html   (1909 words)

  
 YUGOROCK™ forumi - Kultur Shock
The statement is both a political and musical manifesto, describing the band's anti-establishment political leanings as well as its, "everything but the kitchen sink" approach to songwriting.
The sound of the band was firmly grounded in the southeastern European folk tradition, but with a newly acquired rock attitude, incorporating instruments such as accordion and tarambuka alongside electric guitar, bass and drums.
In the winter of 2002/2003, the band toured Europe with success both with the audience and the critics and is getting ready for a second tour in EU in the June/July of 2003.
www.yugorock.com /forumi/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=75   (707 words)

  
 McIntire Department of Music
Antosca’s computer music compositions have been performed throughout the United States and he was a guest composer at the Southeastern Composer’s League 1997 Festival of New Music and at Radford University’s New Horizons 2002 Festival.
Cliff was the assistant engineer for the Contemporary Music Forum CRI recording and has been the broadcast producer and recording engineer for CMF from 1974 to the present.
Dove is the principal percussionist of the Washington Contemporary Music Forum, Polaris Contemporary Chamber Music Ensemble, principal Timpanist for the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Key West Symphony Orchestra and section percussion with the Harrisburg Symphony.
www.virginia.edu /music/pressrelease/04-05/newmusic111104.html   (1286 words)

  
 University of Tennessee: School of Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Formerly on the music faculties of Florida International University and the Sewanee Summer Music Camp, Dr. Baldwin currently serves as associate professor of cello at the University of Tennessee, where he received the Provost's Award for Professional Promise in Research and Creative Activity.
In the summer he performs and teaches at the Hot Springs Music Festival, the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts, the Michigan City Chamber Music Festival, and at the Wintergreen Festival, where he serves as associate principal cello.
James Fellenbaum is Assistant Professor of Music and Director of the UT Symphony Orchestra.
www.music.utk.edu /Strings.html   (1042 words)

  
 Faculty
He received the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music History from the University of Missouri, and the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Conducting from the Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri at Kansas City.
In 1997, Dr. Harris retired as Professor/Head of the Department of Music and Conductor of the Concert Choir at Norfolk State University.
He was a Professor of Music and Conductor of the Concert Choir at Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia from 1971-1984, serving as department chair from 1977-1984.
www.hamptonu.edu /arts_edu/music/harris.htm   (246 words)

  
 Welcome to Stony Brook's Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies
Jane Sugarman is an ethnomusicologist who specializes in the music of Southeastern Europe and the Middle East.
She has conducted field research in Albania and the former Yugoslavia, as well as among immigrants in Western Europe and North America, with a focus on the participation of musical forms in processes of identity formation.
In recent years she has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), and was a 1995 recipient of the President's and Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Teaching.
www.sunysb.edu /complit/new/sugarman.html   (233 words)

  
 Dane Kusic's Curriculum Vitae
Williamsburg, VA. Lecture: "Ethics and Aesthetics in Muslim Ritual Worship: Mosque and Tasavvuf (Dervish) Music in Turkey." Course: Music of the Middle East (MUS300).
Music program broadcaster and music critic/reviewer • Conductor of the city mixed choir and high school choir.
"Modernization and Religious and Music Education in Turkey from the late 19th century to the present." An essay manuscript to be submitted for publishing.
www.research.umbc.edu /~kusic/cv/curriculum.shtml   (1475 words)

  
 The EAR: Vol. 1, no. 3 (Spring 2001)
Michael Tenzer, Professor of Music at the University of British Columbia, is teaching in the UCLA Department of Ethno-musicology during the Spring Quarter.
Dietrich has been recording music from the Balkans since the 1970s, and this album is in some ways the most interesting of his compilations.
Artur Simon has published a magnificent set of recordings [six CDs] that document the music of the Eipomek people as it was in 1975, before evangelization put an end to most of their traditional music.
www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu /archive/EARspring2001.htm   (6330 words)

  
 Tamburitza Festival 2000
Tamburitza-s are a family of string acoustic instruments, which are a signature of folk music from southeastern Europe, particularly from Croatian and Serbian parts of Slavonia and Bačka, and northern Bosnia.
His songs are true jewels of contemporary tamburtza music repertoire that reflect particularly tradition of Croatian minority (also known as Bunjevci) from the Bačka region of Vojvodina (northern Serbia).
In his first appearance in California with virtuoso tambura player Jerry Grcevich, Mark Forry, and members of the Yeseta Brothers Orchestra, Zvonko Bogdan performed both original and traditional numbers that were in many ways nostalgic reminders of the culture that disappeared in turbulent 1990s.
www.slavonicweb.org /events/tamfest00.html   (1199 words)

  
 Islam in the Contemporary World Workshop, Outreach World
The workshop, entitled "Islam in the Contemporary World," was held at UCLA July 27-August 8 under the sponsorship of four regional studies centers of the UCLA International Institute.
Music and Islam, highlighted by a performance of Islamic Filipino music and a demonstration of Islamic influences on the music of Southeastern Europe
The program was sponsored by the UCLA International Institute-affiliated centers for Africa, Europe, Middle East, and Southeast Asian Studies.
www.outreachworld.org /article.asp?articleid=42   (717 words)

  
 EEFC Mt. Washington Balkan Music & Dance Workshop
He was adjunct music faculty in the Contemporary Music Department at the College of Santa Fe from 2000 to 2003 and has been house bassist for the Balkan Music and Dance Workshops since 1995.
She is on the faculty at the College of Santa Fe in the Contemporary Music Program where she teaches percussion, develops classes in world music and women in music, and directs the MidEast/Balkan ensemble there.
He studied music in Vidin and Pleven and graduated from the Academy of Music and Dance in Plovdiv in 1998 with a specialization in tambura and music pedagogy.
www.eefc.org /site_orig/Rstaff.htm   (3166 words)

  
 Untitled Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As for music part, sound samples of water drops, the traditional Chinese bamboo flute and Chinese zither are used mainly through the techniques of convolution and granular synthesis to create a dreamy ambiance to present the concept of fleeting and illusionary life.
She has performed music for flute and electronics at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella Series, the Berkeley Symphony, the National Flute Association Convention, June in Buffalo Festivals, International Computer Music Conferences, and SEAMUS National Conferences.
He has previously taught music theory, composition, and music technology at Mississippi State University, the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, and the University of California at San Diego.
music.muc.edu /msb/2004II/program_notes.htm   (1653 words)

  
 Southeastern Louisiana University- Department of Music and Dramatic Arts-Stephen Suber
Stephen Suber, Professor of Music, joined the faculty at Southeastern Louisiana University since 1982.
His music has been heard in many venues throughout the United States, especially in the southeast, and in Europe.
The work was completed in September of 1992, and premiered on October 29, 1992 by the Southeastern Louisiana University Chamber Orchestra, with David Evenson as soloist.
www.selu.edu /Academics/Depts/Music/academic_music/suber   (457 words)

  
 Jane Cicely Sugarman
"Envoicing Exile: Mediated Musics and the Albanian Transnation." Invited colloquia, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, September 1998; Institute of Musicology, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 1999; University of Chicago, February 2000.
Eastman School of Music, Rochester, June 1993; and as invited colloquium, Department of Music, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, February 1995.
Discussant, conference on "From Dissidence to Dissonance: Music and Change in East Europe and the Former USSR," hosted by the Council for International Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, February 1993.
naples.cc.sunysb.edu /CAS/music.nsf/pages/sugarman   (1211 words)

  
 Dr. Benjamin Boone
He has received fellowships from the Aspen Music Festival Center for Compositional Studies/Advanced Master Class Program, the Aspen Music Festival Jazz Performance Program, "Words and Music," an international composition symposium sponsored by Indiana University and the United States Information Service, the North Carolina Arts Council Composition Fellowship and the Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship.
In addition to his activities as a composer and educator, Boone is actively engaged in research, which is mentioned in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (under "blue note").
He has also assisted a biologist with the infrasonic recording of rhinoceros vocalizations in Zimbabwe and Zambia, served as a music business manager in New York City and performed as a saxophonist throughout the United States, Germany, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and France.
www.csufresno.edu /music/Bios/Boone.html   (529 words)

  
 Faculty and Staff
Gill served on the faculty at Calvary Bible College, Kansas City, Missouri, for ten years and, in addition to teaching piano, organ and music theory, she frequently performed as soloist and accompanist in recitals at the college and in the Kansas City area.
Cory is a specialist in the music of Bach, and is especially interested in interpreting Bach’s works on the piano.
He is currently writing a book entitled "Tempo and Duration in the Music of J. Bach," which introduces a new theory of proportional time durations and attempts to reconstruct Bach’s standard operating procedures in regards to temporal architecture in virtually all of Bach’s extant compositions.
www.spcollege.edu /spg/music/musicfac.htm   (2841 words)

  
 University of Oregon School of Music and Dance: About Us: Mark Levy
He received his B.A. in music from the University of Chicago, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in music with a specialization in ethnomusicology from UCLA.
Before coming to the School of Music, Levy was the Program Coordinator for the UO Russian and East European Studies Center, and was Overseas Study Adviser at the UO Office of International Services.
His courses include Folk Music of the Balkans, Musical Instruments of the World, Music in World Cultures, Music of the Americas, Introduction to Ethnomusicology, and Music of India.
music1.uoregon.edu /About/bios/levym.html   (322 words)

  
 Good Music New York | The best music and events you can't find anywhere else.
This music is renowned for its haunting melodies, dense ornamentation, complex rhythms, and stunning improvisations.
The geographical position of the Balkans in southeastern Europe and hundreds of years of Ottoman Turkish rule have created a wealth of influences from both East and West.
Folk music—that is, any kind of music traditionally created by everyday partyin’ people—is never born in a bubble.
goodmusicny.com   (886 words)

  
 Welcome to MusicByCindy.com
Providing Southeastern Wisconsin with the finest music for the most successful events, Music By Cindy is available for your dinner party, corporate affair, wedding ceremony or reception, garden party or birthday bash.
She is active in the music world with her collaboration in composing a civil war song that is currently being circulated for possible publication in the movie industry.
She is Currently on a lecture circuit with the Wisconsin Music Teachers Association and has lectured in Wisconsin and Illinois.
www.musicbycindy.com   (1170 words)

  
 Participating Faculty: Mark Levy
Mark Levy specializes in ethnomusicology, with his primary focus on the music cultures of southeastern Europe.
Among his recent publications are a series of articles on the musical traditions of seventeen different European-American communities, for the North America volume of the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music.
Levy has directed the UO School of Music's "World Music Series", which features concerts, workshops, and lecture-demonstrations by world-class performers of many Asian, Near Eastern, African, and European music traditions.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~caps/faculty/levy.html   (161 words)

  
 :: Indizoo.com Giving independent musicians a place online ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In southeastern Europe, nestled at the foot of the mountain “Vitosha”, a revolution is taking place.
The boundaries of the Balkan music scene have been stretched to the limit, and soon, it’s liable to explode.
However, my second CD shall be built of modern world music in the broadest sense — contemporary melodies with plenty of traditional elements from all parts of the world.
indizoo.com /pages/blog_forums_staind.php   (2201 words)

  
 CD Baby: BALKANARAMA: Nonstop
We're a six-piece Seattle band playing party music from Southeastern Europe -- traditional songs plus a few originals in the same style.
We specialize in music of the Roma, or Gypsies, from Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania and Serbia.
With 14 tracks, there is a lot of music to choose from in a variety of rhythms and styles.
cdbaby.com /cd/balkanarama   (519 words)

  
 Bradley Creswell < Faculty < Music Dept. < Waldorf College
A native of Southeast Iowa, Professor Buffington received his undergraduate degree in music education from Wartburg College (ELCA) in Waverly, Iowa, in 1995 and his master’s degree in choral conducting and voice from Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri, in 2002.
At Truman State, he taught applied voice to undergraduate music majors, directed the university’s Chamber Choir and Men’s Ensemble, and served as assistant director to Dr. Paul Crabb for Cantoria and the University Chorus.
He is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, Music Educators National Conference, the National Association of Teachers of Singing and SPEBSQSA.
www.waldorf.edu /finearts/music/faculty/buffington.htm   (381 words)

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