Badakhshan is a region of Tajikistan and Afghanistan with a unique musical heritage, especially that of the remote Pamiri Ismailis. Badakhshan's unique folk scene is said to be characteristed by the use of many chromatized tones (especially in falak) in a narrow melodic range, and the use of a characteristic minor-like scale [1]. Badakhshan is a region comprising parts of northeastern Afghanistan and of Tajikistan. ... The Ismāīlī (Arabic: الإسماعيليون; Persian: اسماعیلیان Esmailiyan) branch of Islam is the second largest Shīˤa community after the Twelvers (Ithnāˤashariyya), who are dominant in Iran. ... You may also be looking for: surat al-Falaq. ...

Instrumentation

Lutes are an extremely important part of Pamiri music, especially the three-stringed shortneck lute played with a wooden plectrum; this is called the rubab-i pamiri. Other vatities of lute in Badakhshan include the komus, a three-stringed but unfretted lute played by th Kirghiz of eastern Badakhshan, the tanbur, a seven-stringed lute with sympathetic strings, the setar, with three melody strings and a number of sympathetic strings; the imported Afghan rubab and Azerbaijani tar are also a major part of Badakhshan's lute heritage [2]. The lute is a plucked string instrument with a fretted neck and a deep round back. ... A plectrum (plural: plectra) is a device for plucking or strumming a stringed instrument. ... This articel is about the Greek God. ... A traditional Kyrgyz Manaschi performing part of the Manas epic poem at a yurt camp in Karakol Kyrgyz are a Turkic ethnic group found primarily in Kyrgyzstan. ... Tanbur is the name used to refer to a long necked stringed instruments used in Turkish music. ... Sympathetic strings are strings on musical instruments which begin resonating, not due to any external influence such as picking or bowing, but due to another note (or frequency). ... SETAR N.V., is the privatised full telecommunications service provider for the island of Aruba. ... The rubab (also spelled rubāb) is a plucked string instrument from Afghanistan and Pakistan. ...

Other instruments include the nay, a kind of flute, and the ghijak-i pamiri, a spiked fiddle; the circular frame drum daf is also common, as is the accordion, brought by Russians. There are things that have the name Nay: Definition Nay, an archaic form of no Places In France (pronunciation: NEH) Nay, in the Manche département Nay, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational... A framedrum is a membranophone that has a drumhead diameter greater than its depth. ... The word daf and similar can mean: The word daff is a colloquial short form of daffodil. ... A 24-bass piano accordion An accordion is a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as squeezeboxes. ...

Vocal music

Pamiri music has a characteristic throaty, nasal sound which is a distinguishing characteristic of the area's vocal style. The madah is a kind of sung religious poetry, accompanied by rubabs and/or tanbyr with at least one daf [3]. The rubab (also spelled rubāb) is a plucked string instrument from Afghanistan and Pakistan. ...

References

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