Afghani Rabab: Composition in Raag Desh
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2013
- Composition in Raag Desh performed by Quraishi and accompanied by Samir Chatterjee on tabla and Benjamin Stewart on tanpura. Filmed in the gallery for the art of Mughal South Asia and Later South Asia at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May13, 2013.
A production of the Digital Media Department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Produced and Directed by Christopher Noey
Edited by Kate Farrell
Camera by Kelly Richardson and Jessica Glass
Lighting by Ned Hallick
Sound Recording and Post-Production Audio by David Raymond
Production Coordinator: Stephanie Wuertz
Production Assistants: Sarah Cowan, Kate Farrell, Maureen Coyle
Organized by the Department of Musical Instruments
J. Kenneth Moore, Frederick P. Rose curator-in-charge
Jayson Kerr Dobney, Associate Curator and Administrator
Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, Associate Curator
P. Allen Roda, Research Fellow
Susana Caldeira, Assistant Conservator
Joseph Peknik III, Principal Technician
Pamela Summey, Programs Coordinator
Marian Eines, Associate for Administration
The droning sound coming from that big instrument sounds so trippy
It's a tanpura
Gorgeous synthesis of Afghan and Hindustani music! And ode to the times of the Afghan and Indian friendship and trade!
Rubaab, a genuine Afghan musical instrument played by Quraishi. Thanks for uploading such a rejuvenating and reviving music.
Beautiful melodies. I really enjoyed it. Thanks!
Afghan music is the best.
How beautiful sounds!!!
Amazing performance.
What a nice piece of music! The fluency of Desh raag mixed with the addictive rabab, really feels so good!
You are right about the time signature being western ear friendly. It is a popular taal (rhythmic cycle) known as teen taal, which is 16 beats. A lot of heavy classical taal's are generally confusing to westerners as they lack familiarity.
But like teen taal is pretty popular anyways
interesting and nice...thank you..
Nice
Is the guy on the right playing a sitar? I wonder if Indian musical instruments were introduced to Afghanistan through trade routes, or if a similar instrument developed independently......
It's a tanpura
smeetb01 still from India.
Does anyone know how I can play this on guitar? I've tried UA-cam. Asking for help to play for my Indian friend ❤
Is this instrument a form of Dotara?
***** no
Ok
This song soudns like it is in a western time signature, 4/4, do you think tey had the same kind of structure as far as time signatures go or did the musicians choose to play this because it was most palatable to the western ear. I would like to hear what traditional afghani music sounds like on one of these things
I can't tell for sure but this is in Teen Taal which is 16/4 or four measures of 4/4 per cycle.
4/4 is not a "Western" time signature. I studied for many years with one of the last Afghani masters, Rafi Akbarzada. Much traditional classical music is in a 16 beat cycle or sometimes a simpler 4 or 8 beat rhythm for folk melodies. These musicians are not accommodating Western tastes, and they are playing quite well. Music is universal, and this is the music of the Silk Road. It has influences from across the entire breadth of the largest continent on the planet. Hindustani music has never fit neatly in a cultural box, nor will it ever. It is dynamic, adaptive and at its core improvisational. If you want to hear traditional Afghani music you are actually hearing it, although I will say the music of Kabul is very different from Kandahar for instance. On a side note, the Taliban hated the Rebab so much they cut down mulberry trees to keep them from being made. They were the symbol of a different, more cultured and refined Afghanistan than the barbarous open wound it has been left by the greed of superpowers, the thugishness of warlords and the demented religious insanity of fundamentalists. The last great rebab maker died recently. The instrument is nearly extinct, like the elegant and ancient culture that spawned this music. If the music sounds familiar and "Western" to you, it is because rhythms and melodies like this traveled back and forth along these trade routes for thousands of years. There is European influence there, along with East Asian, Indian, Persian, Arabic and more. I suggest you look deeper and shed your notion that music has borders or is confined by regional style, especially this ancient root form. It is at the base of what you hear in many cultures. In a way, "Western" music is but one branch, not a distinct tradition.
@@paulmercerevp thanks for your comment.