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Çengnağ Me: Music For the Turkish Harp
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The title of this recording, Çengnağme, has a double meaning. In its most straightforward translation —"song of the harp" or "harp-tune"— it stands tor the melodies and improvisations presented here on a modern Turkish-American version of the long-dead Ottoman harp (çeng), once an important ...
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The Life And Death of the Ottoman Harp
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In the long history of the çeng in the Middie East, preserved mostly in poems and pictures, ,t is assumed to be an important and vital tradition, even though it is rarely treated in any detail. However, by the late 17th century the famous Ottoman traveler and writer Evliya Çelebi (1611-1682) ...
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The Modern Turkish Harp: Çeng
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The instrument heard on this recording was designed by the Turkish artist and İnstrument maker Feridun Öngören in coliciboralion with Robert Labaree and executed in 1998 by Feridun Özgören in his workshop in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the third generation of this instrument, the first of which ...
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Robert Labaree - Biography
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Robert Labaree has been a student of Turkish music for 20 years, and for much of that time has performed, recorded and taught Turkish classical music with The Eur Asia Ensemble, mainly in the United States. His principal teachers over the years have been Neyzen Niyazi Sayın and the ...
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Feridun Özgören - Biography
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Feridun Özgören, the maker of the instrument heard on this recording, was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1942 and has been living in the United States since 1973. He is a biostatistician, a musician, a maker of musical instruments and an artist of ebru, the traditional Turkish art of paper marbiing. ...
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Thanks
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Nothing on this recording would have been possible without the help of my teacher İhsan Özgen, whose artistic example and aesthetic judgment have influenced every aspect of this project. For his continued guidance and friendship över 15 years I am deepiy indebted.
As the principal designer ...
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