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Much like with
qawwali
and ghazals, music and
poetry
are inextricably linked in shashmaqam, the
classical
music of the Tajiks and Uzbeks. On
Invisible Face of the Beloved
, they perform the complete cycle of one of the six maqams that make up the shashmaqam repertoire. There are male and female singers, sometimes singing solo and sometimes as a group, accompanied by a frame drum (doira) and three different lutes: the bowed sato, the strummed dutar, and the plucked tanbur. One can hear the relationship between shashmaqam and
, but shashmaqam doesn't reach the same ecstatic heights that most
does (at least in this performance), and there is a periodic emphasis on instrumental passages that doesn't normally occur in
. The detailed liner notes do a much better job of describing and analyzing the performance than can be done here, and the accompanying DVD documents the Academy of the Maqam (whose founder and students are the performers here) and goes even further in describing all the elements of this tradition (
, music, and dance) and how they work in conjunction. The overview of Central Asia and instrument glossaries provide additional information and context.
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture
and
Smithsonian Folkways
are doing a wonderful job of making the rich traditions of Central Asia more accessible to the rest of the world. ~ Sean Westergaard
qawwali
and ghazals, music and
poetry
are inextricably linked in shashmaqam, the
classical
music of the Tajiks and Uzbeks. On
Invisible Face of the Beloved
, they perform the complete cycle of one of the six maqams that make up the shashmaqam repertoire. There are male and female singers, sometimes singing solo and sometimes as a group, accompanied by a frame drum (doira) and three different lutes: the bowed sato, the strummed dutar, and the plucked tanbur. One can hear the relationship between shashmaqam and
, but shashmaqam doesn't reach the same ecstatic heights that most
does (at least in this performance), and there is a periodic emphasis on instrumental passages that doesn't normally occur in
. The detailed liner notes do a much better job of describing and analyzing the performance than can be done here, and the accompanying DVD documents the Academy of the Maqam (whose founder and students are the performers here) and goes even further in describing all the elements of this tradition (
, music, and dance) and how they work in conjunction. The overview of Central Asia and instrument glossaries provide additional information and context.
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture
and
Smithsonian Folkways
are doing a wonderful job of making the rich traditions of Central Asia more accessible to the rest of the world. ~ Sean Westergaard