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Tanbûr Long-Necked Lutes along the Silk Road and beyond
About This Book
'Tanbûr Long-Necked Lutes Along the Silk Road and Beyond' explores the origin, history, construction, and playing techniques of tanbûrs, a musical instrument widely used over vast territories and over many centuries. The diffusion of the tanbûr into the musical cultures along the Silk Road resulted in a variety of tanbûrs with two or more, occasionally doubled or tripled courses, a varying number and variously tuned frets, each having its own characteristic sound, playing technique, and repertory. Since the last century, tanbûrs spread beyond the Silk Road while new versions continue to appear due to changing musical and tonal demands made on them. Similar or identical instruments are also known by other names, such as saz or ba?lama, dotâr or dutâr, setâr, dömbra, and dambura.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- The Tanbûr Tradition
- Figure 1. Map of the Silk Road.
- The Tanbûr Family