Re: Music for Unusual Instruments
Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 11:23 pm
Here's something far from the realm of 'usual', at least for the West...
The ghijak is a fiddle-like instrument that is played throughout Central Asia. This volume was published during the 1960s in the Uzbek SSR and contains several works arranged for this instrument. I'm not exactly sure if this music could be easily translated back to violin or other solo instruments:
Instrument description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghichak
Sound example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1GbRKs5frU
The composers featured are all from Uzbekistan, with the obvious exception of Gliere, who, in the 1930s, played a role in developing Uzbekistan's musical culture:
From the inside cover:
'Approved by the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Education of the Uzbek SSR as a textbook for secondary music schools'
Pieces, for ghidzkak and piano (Uzbek pub., 1965)
Reinhold Moritzyevich GLIERE & Talib SADYKOV - Segokh, from the opera 'Leyli and Medzhnum' (Gliere's Op.94) (1940) (Sadykov's bio at http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... xYi6Nxym0g )
A. KHALMUKHAMEDOV - Dance (no bio available)
R. L. FELITSIANT - Piece, on the Khorezm folk song 'Bularmu' (some quotes at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 6bih%3D989 )
Tulkun TASHMATOV (TOSHMATOV) - Dance (bio at http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... tYeibNCvTw )
Suleiman Alexandrovich YUDAKOV - Romance (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 6bih%3D989 )
Sovet (Sergei) Afanasyevich VARELAS - Waltz (bio/family homepage at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... /index.htm )
Sovet (Sergei) Afanasyevich VARELAS - Prelude
Felix Markovich YANOVSKY (elsewhere as YANOV-YANOVSKY?) - Concert Suite (some biographical details at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 6bih%3D989 )
http://www.mediafire.com/?667s6cz1tikk66s (greyscale, very large!)
The ghijak is a fiddle-like instrument that is played throughout Central Asia. This volume was published during the 1960s in the Uzbek SSR and contains several works arranged for this instrument. I'm not exactly sure if this music could be easily translated back to violin or other solo instruments:
Instrument description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghichak
Sound example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1GbRKs5frU
The composers featured are all from Uzbekistan, with the obvious exception of Gliere, who, in the 1930s, played a role in developing Uzbekistan's musical culture:
From the inside cover:
'Approved by the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Education of the Uzbek SSR as a textbook for secondary music schools'
Pieces, for ghidzkak and piano (Uzbek pub., 1965)
Reinhold Moritzyevich GLIERE & Talib SADYKOV - Segokh, from the opera 'Leyli and Medzhnum' (Gliere's Op.94) (1940) (Sadykov's bio at http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... xYi6Nxym0g )
A. KHALMUKHAMEDOV - Dance (no bio available)
R. L. FELITSIANT - Piece, on the Khorezm folk song 'Bularmu' (some quotes at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 6bih%3D989 )
Tulkun TASHMATOV (TOSHMATOV) - Dance (bio at http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... tYeibNCvTw )
Suleiman Alexandrovich YUDAKOV - Romance (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 6bih%3D989 )
Sovet (Sergei) Afanasyevich VARELAS - Waltz (bio/family homepage at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... /index.htm )
Sovet (Sergei) Afanasyevich VARELAS - Prelude
Felix Markovich YANOVSKY (elsewhere as YANOV-YANOVSKY?) - Concert Suite (some biographical details at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 6bih%3D989 )
http://www.mediafire.com/?667s6cz1tikk66s (greyscale, very large!)