MUSIC 8

VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC OF MIDDLE EAST

Teacher Melva V. Juan

MUSIC OF INDIA

Music of India includes several types of folk and popular music. One aspect of vocal music uses melismatic singing, when compared with the Philippines music which uses melismatic singing only used in chanting epics and the passion.

MUSIC OF INDIA

The samagana style of singing is an established part of contemporary tradition in India. The hyms in Sama Veda, a sacred text, were sung as samagana and not chanted. Rig Veda in terms of sanctity and liturgical importance is an ancient Indian sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit.

MUSIC OF INDIA

You may watch and listen the link online

 Vedic Love Song I Sanskrit

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTxM_kvhhJk 

Traditional music of Pakistan

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T56KTpJ3bLw

MUSIC OF PAKISTAN

The Music of Pakistan (Urdu: پاکستانی موسیقی‎, lit. 'pákistáni mosíqi') includes diverse elements ranging from music from various parts of South Asia as well as Central Asian, Middle Eastern, and modern-day Western popular music influences

GHAZAL

Traditional expression of love, separation, and loneliness.

-Its structural requirements are more strict than those of most poetic forms traditionally written in English.

-It is considered by many to be one of the principal poetic forms in the Persian civilization -can be sung by both men and women.

QAWWALI

The devotional music of Christi Order, a vibrant musical tradition that stretches back more than 700 years, and originally performed mainly at Sufi shrines throughout the subcontinent and gained 

MUSIC OF PAKISTAN

You may watch and listen the following link online

 Spiritual Jewish music

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1KeMqMZOPc

 Alabina

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGd87ZLqSjM

MUSIC OF ISRAEL

Music of Israel is a combination of Jewish and non-Jewish music traditions that have come together over the course of a century to create a distinctive musical culture. For almost 150 years, musicians have sought original stylistic elements that would define the emerging national spirit.

DEVOTIONAL

Almost entirely vocal, featured during Sabbath and holy days, the art of Hazan ( leader of prayer in the synagogue) has always been evident in the culture, and shofar is a special call to prayer and repentance

SECULAR

Instruments and voice are used, played during life passage events, context lies outside the religious domain, and very rhythmic and have popular and romantic text.

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC OF SOUTH ASIA AND MIDDLE EAST

INDIA