Would you like to hear how a Jewish cantillation (“Bereshit bara,” 'In the beginning', Genesis 1:1-5) sounds, as performed by Menashe Cohen in 1970? Or perhaps you would like to listen to a Berber wedding song, ahwash, from the Anti-Atlas, performed by Berber women and recorded in 1979? Or an excerpt from Pi-p'a-chi performed by an instrumental ensemble of dizi (ti tse) and the sanxian, as well as wooden sticks and a gong?All of these recordings are available to you online via the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, a reference source with thousands of pages of material and 700 entries by expert contributors. Its content includes audio examples, illustrations, photographs, and drawings, song texts and score examples, charts and maps of world regions. It’s fully searchable, as well as browsable – you can browse by Audio Tracks, Audio Albums, People, Subjects, Genres, Instruments, Ensembles, Cultural Groups, and Places, as well as by Genres. And you can create and save playlists within the system (just be prepared to download the free Sibelius Scorch browser plug-in to play music online from the Encyclopedia).
If you’re interested in enhancing your research and your understanding of cultures and regions, do take a look at this versatile, online multimedia encyclopedia.
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Cheryl
the concept looks pretty interesting..
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