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The Music of Women
ALEKSANDRA KOTECKA, TOMASZ WIERZBOWSKI
The Music of Women
Selda Özturk, musician and musicologist: music as a reflection of the blending of cultures. As a means for expressing everyday human emotions, folk music may also be priceless as a historical source.
GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND NAMES
- Bağlama
- Dengbêj
- Meyrem Xan - Dotmam
- Radyo Erîwan/Fatma îsa-Herê Dînê
- Dengbêj Fatma îsa - Miho
- Şakiro - Emro
- Dengbêj Şakiro - Lo Axayo (Şahê Dengbêjan)
- Karapêtê Xaço - Lawike Metini - Kurdish traditional song
- Kardeş Türküler - Heyran Jaro & Meyrem & Zêrê Zer
- BÜFK Barış İçin Söylüyor - Beirut/Nassam Alayna Al Hawa
- Jiraan Ensemble: Ya Mahla (traditional Syrian)
- Kardeş Türküler - Ala Del’una
- Kardeş Türküler ve Dengbêj Kurdê & Henîfa
- Chaldean Catholic Church
- Yazidis
- Maqam
- Adhan
GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND NAMES
- Bağlama
- Dengbêj
Dengbêj – is a Kurdish music genre and/or a singer of the music genre Dengbêj. Dengbêjs are singing storytellers.
- Meyrem Xan - Dotmam
- Radyo Erîwan/Fatma îsa-Herê Dînê
- Dengbêj Fatma îsa - Miho
- Şakiro - Emro
- Dengbêj Şakiro - Lo Axayo (Şahê Dengbêjan)
- Karapêtê Xaço - Lawike Metini - Kurdish traditional song
- Kardeş Türküler - Heyran Jaro & Meyrem & Zêrê Zer
- BÜFK Barış İçin Söylüyor - Beirut/Nassam Alayna Al Hawa
- Jiraan Ensemble: Ya Mahla (traditional Syrian)
- Kardeş Türküler - Ala Del’una
- Kardeş Türküler ve Dengbêj Kurdê & Henîfa
- Chaldean Catholic Church
Chaldean Catholic Church – is an Eastern Catholic particular church (sui juris) in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church, and is headed by the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon.
- Yazidis
Yazidis – are an endogamous and mostly Kurmanji-speaking minority, indigenous to Upper Mesopotamia. The majority of Yazidis remaining in the Middle East today live in the disputed territories of Northern Iraq, primarily in the Nineveh and Dohuk governorates.
- Maqam
Maqam – is the system of melodic modes used in traditional Arabic music, which is mainly melodic. The word maqam in Arabic means place, location or position. The Arabic maqam is a melody type. It is “a technique of improvisation” that defines the pitches, patterns, and development of a piece of music and which is “unique to Arabian art music”.
- Adhan
Adhan – is the Islamic call to prayer, recited by the muezzin at prescribed times of the day. The root of the word is “adhina” meaning “to listen, to hear, be informed about”.
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