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	Music of Tajikistan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The classical music is shashmaqam, which is very similar to Uzbek music [1].
		Southern Tajikistan has a distinctive form of folk music called falak, which is played at celebrations for weddings, circumcisions and other occasions.
		Tajik folk music is traditionally divided into three styles, Pamir (Mountain-Badakhshan province), Central Kuhistoni (Gissar, Kulyab, Garm provinces) and Sogdiana's northern style; the latter is part of the same musical culture as the adjacent regions of Uzbekistan (Kashkadarya and Surkhandarya).
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Music_of_Tajikistan (366 words)

	Tajikistan
		Tajikistan is officially a republic, and holds elections for the President and Parliament.
		Tajikistan is the poorest country of the ex-USSR and one of the poorest countries in the world.
		The culture of Tajikistan was originally shared with that of Uzbekistan, but during Communist rule, the cultural fabric of the region was disrupted by the Soviet leadership imposing artificial boundaries and the notion of nation-state - alien to the region - on the area.
	creekin.net /n180-tajikistan.html (1085 words)

	Tajikistan - Gurupedia
		Tajikistan (Тоҷикистон) is a country in Central Asia.
		Tajikistan is completely landlocked, and is the smallest nation in Central Asia by area.
		Tajikistan is covered by many mountain ranges, including the Tian Shan, and more than fifty percent of the country is above sea level.
	www.gurupedia.com /t/ta/tajikistan.htm (970 words)

	directopedia : Directory : Regional : Asia : Tajikistan
		As part of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan was initially grouped with what is now Uzbekistan in the Autonomous SSR of Tajikistan, but in 1929 was made a separate constituent republic.
		Tajikistan to this date is the only country in Central Asia to have included an active opposition in its government.
		The largest is Vorukh (exclave area between 95 and 130 km², population estimated between 23,000 and 29,000, 95% Tajiks and 5% Kyrgyz, distributed among 17 villages), located 45 km south of Isfara on the right bank of the Karafshin river, in Kyrgyz territory.
	www.directopedia.org /directory/Regional-Asia/Tajikistan.shtml (1513 words)

	Music in Uzbekistan & Tajikistan
		The classical music of the former Soviet Republics in Central Asia is often overlooked in a survey of the world's music, but this is completely unjustified.
		Music from this region is strongly conditioned by both Turkish and Iranian styles, along with a dose of its own originality.
		She is accompanied by the music scholar Shawqat Mirzâev (rabâb) and his instrumental ensemble.
	www.medieval.org /music/world/central.html (762 words)

	Cornell Music Library Homepage
		Seiler’s performance of this musically and technically difficult work is excellent, and the work’s knotty contrapuntal complexity takes on a new form in the close interplay between the solo and orchestral violins.
		The music is performed on traditional komuz (three stringed lute), flutes, stick fiddles, and various types of Jew’s harps.
		As with “Mountain Music of the Uzbeks,” this project is partly an attempt to resurrect a partially-derelict tradition, in this case that of the shashmaqam, the ancient courtly music of Muslim Central Asia.
	www.library.cornell.edu /music/Newandnotable9.htm (1124 words)

	Tajikistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tajikistan's president Emomali Rahmonov and Iran's president meeting at a trilateral panel, along with Afghanistan, to improve relations among the Persian speaking nations (in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, July 2006).
		The Amu Darya and Panj rivers mark the border with Afghanistan, and Tajikistan's mountains are the major source of runoff for the Aral Sea basin.
		Tajikistan is home to a small Jewish community and used to have a synagogue, the Dushanbe synagogue.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tajikistan (2148 words)

	OhioLINK ETD: Koen, Benjamin
		In the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan, the preeminent vocal and instrumental genre of devotional music is known as maddah.
		Evidence from my research suggests that the integration of music and prayer is potentially the most efficacious parameter of the music-prayer dynamics model.
		Musical and poetic analysis draws on local, power-laden cultural symbols and metaphors, as well as concepts of embodiment and emplacement to explore how bodily response, belief and cognitive flexibility work together for cure and prevention.
	www.ohiolink.edu /etd/view.cgi?acc_num=osu1059673277 (381 words)

	Publius Pundit - Blogging the democratic revolution
		Rakhmonov’s People’s Democratic Party of Tajikistan — also known as the PDPT — won 65 percent of the seats in parliament in the 2000 elections.
		The polls have closed in Tajikistan where voters were electing members of the lower house of parliament Sunday.
		To note, any and all opposition in Tajikistan is weak and fragmented, but here is an information page on the parties.
	www.publiuspundit.com /?p=524 (617 words)

	IRANIAN MUSIC: DO-TÂR - (CAIS) ©
		The sound box and neck of the dotâr (or dombra) used in the popular music of Tajikistan are carved from a single piece of apricot wood.
		In the 1960s, under the influence of Indian instruments, strings for resonance and a drone bass were added, which led to a change in the technique of playing (with a metal pick) and to a change in proportions (Baily, pp.
		The musical function of the dotâr determines its status.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Music/dotar.htm (731 words)

	Music Initiative in Central Asia.
		Music traditionally served not only as entertainment, but as a way to reinforce social and moral values, and musicians provided models of exemplary leadership.
		As part of their mission of promoting musical transmission, tradition-bearer centres work to develop new materials and methodologies for teaching traditional music, involve students in ethnographic documentation of local traditions, and work toward building appreciation of authentic traditional music among audiences in Central Asia.
		His students excel as performers of epic poetry and music, and are equally adept at electronically transcribing epic texts from handwritten notebooks kept by old masters, and using computers to de-noise old recordings.
	www.akdn.org /Music/Musicin.htm (2455 words)

	VIA KABOUL : Music of Central Asia
		In the southeast of Tajikistan, where the majestic Pamir Mountains reach heights only slightly lower than those of the Himalayas, local traditions of devotional song, mystical music, and dance have flourished among mountain-dwelling Pamiri peoples, many of whom are Isma’ili Muslims.
		The Isma’ilis, whose spiritual leader, or imam, is His Highness the Aga Khan, have cultivated distinct cultural and religious practices that, combined with Badakhshan’s rugged geography, have nourished the preservation of many aspects of traditional culture.
		For Badakhshanis, music and dance are intimately linked, and Sahiba, an outstanding dancer as well as one of Badakhshan’s finest female vocalists, illustrates the rich symbolism of Pamiri dance.
	www.viakaboul.com /artist_page.php?artist_id=27 (220 words)

	Music from Kyrgyszstan Reviews
		Kyrgyzstan is, I learned, a mountainous country the size of South Dakota, with roughly the population of Washington State, cradled between China to the east and Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan on the remaining borders.
		The anthology is dominated by the strummed sound of the favored national instrument, the three-stringed komuz, both solo and as an accompaniment for singing.
		There is a rough bright simplicity to all the tracks that could represent the roughness of the country and barbarity of the history, lacking are the more jaded, byzantine arrangements of musics from some other parts of Asia.
	w3.gorge.net /judith/steppes.htm (747 words)

	Connect-Tajikistan.org
		Tajikistan Connectivity Students and Teachers are Celebrating Their Second International Educational Week.
		This forum is a chance for you to ask them questions about their life in America, how it is different from Tajikistan, how American view Tajikistan, what music they listen to, and anything this you want to know about America from the eyes of a Tajik pupil.
		After discussing these questions in the virtual world pupils from Tajikistan have been invited by their peers in Uzbekistan to visit for a day to meet and form friendships.
	www.connect-tajikistan.org /en/sc_IEW.html (849 words)

	The Tajikistan Update - Cultural, Language, & Ethnicity
		While many of the ethnic Russians have fled Tajikistan during the last decade the Russian language is still spoken by much of the native population.
		In the fall of 1992, when the civil war in Tajikistan was full-blown, the Israeli government evacuated most of Tajikistan's Jewish population.
		Besides the Muslims there are a number of other religious groups in Tajikistan including Christians, most of whom are members of the Orthodox Church and come from the European and Korean population, as well as a small number of Jews living in Tajikistan.
	www.angelfire.com /sd/tajikistanupdate/culture.html (1885 words)

	The TOPIC World Series at cdRoots
		Falak, (literally “sky” or “destiny”) is a characteristic musical genre of the rural mountain regions of Tajikistan in Central Asia.
		In the late 19th century, music previously played on Zulu musical bows was transferred in the new urban environment to the guitar and often concertina and violin too.
		The accompaniments and instrumental music are chiefly on the morinxuur (two-stringed fiddle) or limbe (flute), but there are also recordings of the yatga (zither), yenchin (hammered dulcimer) and jew's harp.
	www.cdroots.com /topic-900.shtml (1861 words)

	FSU College of Music . Faculty & Staff . Faculty
		Koen specializes in medical, cognitive, and applied ethnomusicology, approaching music, health, and healing from a holistic perspective—exploring and engaging the biological, psychological, social, emotional, and spiritual factors that comprise preventive and curative practices in diverse cultural and clinical contexts.
		In particular, Dr. Koen’s research concerns music-prayer dynamics, meditation, entrainment, cognitive flexibility, the physics and metaphysics of sound, devotional music, spirituality and religion, race, indigenous flutes, improvisation, the Middle East, Central Asia, China, North America, and Jazz.
		Koen was a music presenter for the historic Smithsonian Folklife Festival The Silk Road: Connecting Cultures, Creating Trust.
	www.music.fsu.edu /koen.htm (255 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Traditions from the three Baltic nations, as well as Iraq, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan were recognized in an effort to prevent their loss.
		Mugam is a highly structured musical system that still lends itself to a great degree of improvisation.
		Similarly, the future of another musical tradition, shashmaqom music from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, is threatened.
	www.rferl.org /features/2003/11/14112003171810.asp (898 words)

	Tajikistan - Tocikiston, Tojikistan
		Tajikistan has experienced three changes in government and a five-year civil war since it gained independence in 1991 from the USSR.
		Part of the agreement required the legalization of opposition political parties prior to the 1999 elections, which occurred, but such parties have made little progress in successful participation in government.
		Random criminal and political violence in the country remains a complication impairing Tajikistan's ability to engage internationally.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/tajikistan.htm (240 words)

	Connect-Tajikistan.org
		During the course of the project the US and Tajikistan Connectivity students showed all their new skills they have learned in research skills, communication and computer programs.
		In ten Internet Learning Centers located in several different regions of Tajikistan, girls from the 8-11th classes were invited to take digital photos of women and women's activities in their communities.
		The Tajikistan School Connectivity Project for Central Asia is a project of Relief International - Schools Online's Global Citizenship & Youth Philanthropy Program and has been made possible with major funding from the United States State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Global Catalyst Foundation.
	www.connect-tajikistan.org /en/sc_archive.html (3738 words)

	Welcome to XoraSun
		Below you can find the Powerpoint presentation (MS Office 2000 version) on doing business in Tajikistan that I have prepared and presented on Jul. 1, 2000 during the Global Village for Future Leaders of Business and Industry 2000 (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania USA).
		There were interns coming from 37 countries and I was the only one-ever (yes, I am proud!!) to represent our Bait-ul-Sharaf, TAJIKISTAN.
		Tajikistan - The Land at the Foot of Sun
	www.geocities.com /shaitov (397 words)

	Dave DeMarco - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
		Learn how to fill your home with the sweet sound of digital music with a minimum of fuss.
		Dave DeMarco, alum of Boston's Berklee College of Music and Baltimore's Peabody Institute, currently plays an average of 250 dates a year with several of Baltimore?s top draw acts including Never Never, BiggerBetterFasterMore and Oblivion Sun, the Wes McDonough Band and the Kajun Kelley Band.
		Active in Maryland's music scene since the ripe old age of 14, Dave has logged immeasurable gig miles from the corner saloon to the Vans Warped Tour with the likes of Rebel Amish Radio, Battery Apple and Soulcage to name but a few.
	music.download.com /davedemarco/3600-8725-100739218.html (721 words)

	CD Baby: PHOENIX SPRING ENSEMBLE: Desert Dreams of Light
		Indigenous and Original music with major improvisations by jazz and middle eastern virtuosos, influenced by folk music of Tajikistan, Eastern Turkestan, Kazhakstan, Turkey and Iran.
		The Phoenix Spring Ensemble, directed by Betty Anne Siu Junn Wong, is proud to present music influenced by folk music of the Turko-Muslim peoples of Central Asia, Eastern Turkestan (Xinjiang Province in Northwest China), the Middle East, as well as original music inspired by the ensemble's contact with these cultures.
		The Phoenix Spring Ensemble, a group of intrepid musical travelers from San Francisco, dedicates this CD to the great ancient civilizations living near the deserts of the world.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/pse1 (362 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Tajikistan
		While parts of the Islamic world expressed dismay at possible U.S. raids on Afghanistan in reprisal for attacks on New York and Washington, the faithful at Friday prayers in neighboring Tajikistan were calm and measured.
		Due to security concerns, the U.S. Embassy in Tajikistan has moved its operations to the U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan.
		Tajikistan Struggles in Post-Soviet Poverty: Independence Proves a Burden for Ill-Equipped Nation Weakened by Hunger and Drought
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/world/asia/centralasia/tajikistan (391 words)

	Oleg Fesov : Lalaiki Pamir - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		From Ethiopia to Sri Lanka and Turkey, world music is full of interesting east/west hybrids that are influenced by traditional sounds yet quite modern in their outlook.
		Influenced by western pop as well as the traditional music of Tajikistan, the Middle East and India, Lalaiki Pamir is hardly the work of a purist but is definitely the work of a risk-taker.
		On this lush, atmospheric album, synthesizers and keyboards are heard along with such instruments as the dombra, the Arabic oud, the Indian sitar, and Indian tabla drums.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,194255,00.html (241 words)

	Tajikistan News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Japan demolish Tajikistan 4-0 in AFC youth championship
		Tajikistan presidential race drives at full speed without serious violations
		Tajikistan: Unfinished construction of Rogun HPS is more than $1.2bn worth
	www.einnews.com /tajikistan (1010 words)

	Education World® - Social Sciences : Area Studies : Europe : Tajikistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)*
		Classical and Traditional Music Tajikistan Reviews album and CD anthologies of Tajiki music.
		Constitution of Tajikistan, news, maps, links and a very impressive collection of analytical articles.
		EIA Country Analysis Brief: Tajikistan This report is part of a series by the United States Energy Information Administration.
	db.education-world.com /perl/browse?cat_id=3792 (347 words)

	Classical music by country
		The Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia.
		A multi-year project (in collaboration with The Silk Road Project, Inc.) for the preservation and promotion of traditional music at the heart of the Silk Road.
		The Musical Instruments of Central Asia The Music of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kazakstan.
	www.zeroland.co.nz /classical_music_country_3.html (159 words)

	Tajikistan Music News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tajikistan Music News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News
		Jamaican calypsos, Sicilian tarantellas, Chinese opera and Tajik and Uzbek music.
		of all ages and nationalities enjoyed live music, dancing and free food at the festival.
	www.einnews.com /tajikistan/newsfeed-tajikistan-music (730 words)

	Amazon.com: Tajikistan: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Falak: The Voice of Destiny - Traditional, Popular and Symphonic Music of Tajikistan by Various Artists (Audio CD - 2006)
		Music from Tajikistan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia by Fikret Amirov, Giya Kancheli, Avet Terterian, Benjamin Yusupov, and Michael Helmrath (Audio CD - 2002)
		Music from Tajikistan Georgia by Michael Helmrath (Audio CD - 2001)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Tajikistan&tag=cgiscripts&index=music&link_code=qs&page=1 (120 words)

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