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 Back to the roots...
Author: GAWN 
Date:   2012-04-10 12:15

The ancestors of our beloved Oboes were at home in the middle east from where they travelled westward with the crusaders and eastward along the silkroad --- at least that's the story I have read somewhere. And somehow, for me, the oboe (instead of the dramatic changes and improvements it underwent through the ages) can have a markedly oriental timbre.
Now, here are two quite exotic but remarkable videos of a musician playing middle eastern music - improvisations in the persian modes (mugham) of 'bayati shiraz' and 'segah' - on a modern Western Oboe, kind of taking it back to its oriental roots.

http://youtu.be/FJ2metCiu20

http://youtu.be/vRY6fqbvaBc

Here's some more inforamtion on what he actually does:

Mugham (also called Maqam, Makam or Dastgah, depending on where in the middle east you are) is a highly complex art form that weds classical poetry and musical improvisation in specific local modes. "Mugham" is a modal system. Unlike Western modes, "mugham" modes are associated not only with scales but with an orally transmitted collection of melodies and melodic fragments that performers use in the course of improvisation. "Mugham" is a compound composition of many parts.

The choice of a particular mugham and a style of performance fits a specific event. The dramatic unfolding in performance is typically associated with increasing intensity and rising pitches, and a form of poetic-musical communication between performers and initiated listeners.

In 2003, UNESCO recognized mugham as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

(Look for maqam, makam, mugham or dastgah on wikipedia for further details.)



Post Edited (2012-04-10 12:18)

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