Re: [HG] oriental tunes

[Jocelyn Demuth]

Another source of Middle eastern sheet music is Lark in the Morning.  I don't like this store much - for reasons I'm sure many of you are familiar with but they have Sadika's tunes and I think her second book which has middle eastern songs.  Also the group Turku plays very melodic, beautiful Turkish songs including Uskardar.  They don't have a HG in the group, but you can get a sense of the song from their arrangements.  They have 3 albums.  The first one, Alleys of Istanbul, has the most traditional stuff - songs in Sadika's tunes.  Find their albums on the web.   When playing Middle eastern music,  it is essential to have a drummer who plays a dumbek.  The music sounds very plain and unmelodic without it.  With a dumbek,  it comes alive.  With dancers, its magical.  The HG is a great middle eastern instrument, even though I don't know if it ever reached that area of the world.  Of course since Middle eastern scales are very different from the European scale,  you need a chromatic instrument to make it work.  - Jocelyn ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hg@hurdygurdy.com Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 9:16 AM Subject: RE: [HG] oriental tunes Dear list, I also play "Uskadar" on HG (and some Spanish Sepharadic tunes), but I am not able to play that nush wahdia/duku braul/belly dance/dum-tak-as-tak-dum-tak rhythm with my right hand.  Perhaps Pascal Lefebvre has some output that would work in that context.  Check his "Sol y sombra" recording with Luis Delgado. You may find some MIDI files with tunes for Arabic lute at this site: http://www.zeryab.com Good luck, Wenceslao Martínez Calonge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/iberiamidi http://www.interacesso.pt/web/wencesmc   =