Preface: For the following article I have chosen The Hampton String Quartet® as the premier example of a classical string quartet that plays arrangements of…
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Listening to the Arab World Online
Written by L.A. Heberlein For much of the past year, while researching The Rough Guide to Internet Radio, I listened for hours every day to…
Tampere Vocal Music Festival
From my diary [by Vijayalakshmy Subramaniam] I received the invitation from the World Vocal Music Festival, Tampere, late last year. I was really excited as…
The Parap of Sarawak
Parap is a folklore song sung mainly among the Kayan-Kenyah tribes of Sarawak (Malaysia). It is a song relating expressions of love, happiness, loneliness and…
Nightclub in the Jungle
London, England – Martin Cradick of Baka Beyond is back from Africa where he and the Baka built a Music House which will function as…
The Black Sufis of Gujarat
The Black Sidis of Gujarat are a tribal Sufi community of East African origin which arrived to India eight centuries ago and made Gujarat their…
Changüi to Invade the Cuban East
(Prensa Latina- Cumbancha) Guantánamo, Cuba – Chords from the “tres” guitar, marimba and maracas sound almost every day in different corners of Guantánamo city, venue…
Indonesian Music
Indonesia’s music is as diverse as its people. Best known abroad are the Javanese and Balinese orchestras generally called gamelan, which consist largely of gongs…
What is Flamenco?
by Marie Jost “…an Andalusian loves flamenco because it is beyond any definition, any law–accepting as it does every style, modality, cadence, sound and rhythm…because…
An Introduction to Flamenco Cante
Flamenco has been graced by performers of great talent since its earliest days. The oldest account of a flamenco performance mentions two masters of flamenco…