Bibframe Work

The human voice: Recitation of verses of the Qu'ran (members of a religious brotherhood, Al-Ateuf, near Ghardala, Algeria, 1970) (2:22)

Dhikr : a Sufi ceremony (members of the Guneydiyah sect, led by Ismail Ali Hasan and Abdel Hamid Abdel Aziz, Fayoum Oasis, Egypt, 1975) (2:15)

Houri : secular vocal music (sung by Habibola Halika, Sandandaj, Kurdistan, Iran, 1975) (1:19)

Bedouin wedding songs (sung antiphonally by two groups of women in an encampment south of Wadi Musa, Jordan, 1975) (1:15)

Ghazal, or love song (Jabr bin Husein, vocal, rababah, Tarif, Abu Dhabi, 1972) (1:15)

Gurdum gurdum : love song (Amir Mohammed of Aqcha, vocal, tal ; Baba Hakim, tambur ; unidentified percussionists, daira, zerbaghali, Daulatabad, north of Balkh, Afghanistan, 1974) (3:14)

Song at the feast after Ramadan (members of the Rashá'ida tribe, near Nagfa, Eritrea, 1969) (1:48)

Haddadi (led by Salim Alánand and a group of about 20 pearl divers, vocals, percussion (muruas, tabl, earthen pots), Muharraq, Bahrain, 1972) (4:13)

Kavali : a devotional song (Wasimxzama Khan Naseri, voice, harmonium ; Nazir Ahmad, tabla, Hyderabad, Deccan, India, 1975) (4:35)

Abu Zeluf (Dunya Yunis, vocal, Beirut, Lebanon, 1972) (3:01)

Leader/chorus song (by a group of Gadabursi Somali, Jijiga, Harar Province, Ethiopia, 1965) (2:21)

Radha : Bedouin song (Mehein fin Baqid, Dahai fin Baqid, vocals, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 1963) (1:39) ; Ga's (Hateim Atiya Khalil Sayed, vocal, Fayoum, Egypt, 1975) (1:37)

Love song (Aqi Pishak, vocal, dambura, Aqcha, Afghanistan, 1974) (2:19)

Tahlil (sung by a Sufi group of about 25 men, Baghdad, Iraq, 1975) (6:15)

Lutes: Taqsim in maqám Iraq (Salman Shukur, 'ud, Baghdad, Iraq, 1975) (3:28)

Taqsim in maqám Hejaz : 'ud (Sultan Hamid, 'ud, vocals ; unidentified drummer (on muruas) and chorus, Baghdad, Iraq, 1972) (6:01)

Hausi in makám Iraq (Aboubekr Zerga, kuitra, Tlemçen, Algeria, 1970) (5:00)

Tar solo in dastgah Mahur (Hussein Ali Zodeh, tar, Teheran, Iran, 1975) (4:53)

Tambur solo (Baba Hakim, tambur, Daulatabad, Afghanistan, 1974) (4:41)

Folk song (unidentified singer with gunbri accompaniment, Foum el Ançur, Morocco, 1975) (2:50)

Taksim in makám Nishaburek (Erol Sayin, tanbur, Ankara, Turkey, 1975) (3:27)

Solo in dastgah af-Shari (Jalal zur Fonun, sehtar, Teheran, Iran, 1975) (4:16)

Wedding song (Khan Mohammad, vocal ; Aqi Pishak, Mohammad Omar, tambur, dambara, daira, tal, Aqcha, Afghanistan, 1974) (2:51)