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Central Asian and Caucasian Music at Georgetown University Library
| All items listed below are located in the Gelardin
New Media Center, on the 1st floor of Lauinger Library.
More information about many of these CDs and tapes can be found by consulting GEORGE,
the Georgetown University Library catalog. For circulation information,
click on the call number link. To browse an alphabetical list
of Caucasian and Central Asian music, please try the CERES
National Music list.
The side bar will direct you to the country
or geographical area of interest. Music is organized
alphabetically by performer, and then by CD title. Titles cited
are taken from the label or jewel case, thus the romanization
used may not
be
systematic, some have translated titles, etc.
If you have questions or comments, please contact BRENDA
E. BICKETT, Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies Bibliographer, Georgetown
University Library or NEVENKA ZDRAVKOVSKA,
Liaison to Eurasian, Russian & East European Studies, Georgetown University
Library. |
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Afghanistan |
Composer, Performer |
Title |
Description and Year |
Call Number |
Aziz Herawi |
Aziz Herawi: Master of Afghani Lutes |
Dutar and rebab music from Herat played in exile in California
[1992] |
CD 1804
|
Aziz Herawi, Siar Ahmad Hazeq, Omar Herawi, Veronica Doubleday,
John Baily |
Memories of Herat |
Popular/folk music of Herat. Note: Veronica Doubleday is
author of Three Women of Herat [1996] |
CD 1537
|
Mohammad Rahim Khushnawaz and others |
Afganistan: le rubab de Heart/Afghanistan: The Rubab of
Heart |
Folk music of Herat; recorded in 1974 [1993] |
CD 1698
|
Rahim Khushnawaz, Gada Mohammed |
Afghanistan: Rubab et Dutar |
Rebab and dutar (lute) music of Afghanistan [1992] |
CD 1535
|
various performers |
Afghanistan |
Folk music traditions of Afghanistan, recorded in 1980 (note:
read liner notes critically) [2000] |
CD 1710
|
various performers |
Afghanistan: Traditional Musicians |
1974 field recordings of traditional folk and love songs
in Dari, Pushto, and Uzbek [1994] |
CD 1540
|
various performers |
The Traditional Music of Herat/ La musique traditionelle
d'Herat |
Songs and instrumental music, recorded 1973-1977 by Veronica
Doubleday and John Baily [1996] |
CD 1784
|
Armenia |
Composer, Performer
|
Title
|
Description and Year
|
Call Number
|
Djivan Gasparian |
Ask Me No Questions: Djivan Gasparian |
Armenian Christian & Pagan folk music played on duduk
(oboe) [1994] |
CD 1786 |
Djivan Gasparian, Michael Brook |
Black Rock |
New Age/ world music--Armenian duduk (oboe) [1998] |
CD 1789 |
Djivan Gasparian, Vachagan Avakian, Levon, Arshakung |
Apricots from Eden |
Armenian folk music played on duduk (oboe) [1996] |
CD 1695 |
Lalezar |
Minority Composers: Music of the Sultans, Sufis, and Seraglio,
Vol. 3 |
Turn-of-20th-Century Ottoman art and nightclub music by Armenian,
Greek, and Jewish composers [2001] |
CD 1491 |
Udi Hrant Kenkulian & various backup musicians |
Udi Hrant, The Early Recordings. Volume 1 |
Ud/vocal music recorded between 1935 & 1950 (Armenians-Turkey)
[1995] |
CD 1538 |
various performers |
Armenie, Musique de tradition populaire et des Achough |
Armenian folk songs, folk dance music, and instrumental
improvisations [1993] |
CD 1696 |
various performers |
Armenians on 8th Avenue |
Cabaret and traditional music of New York diaspora Turkish,
Turkish-Armenian, Greek, and Jewish communities in 1940's [1996] |
CD 1772 |
various performers |
Istanbul 1925 |
Classical/Folk/Cabaret fusion/compilation by Turks, Greeks,
Jews, Armenians, and Rom recorded in Istanbul,1925-50 [1994] |
CD 1487 |
Azerbaijan |
Composer, Performer
|
Title
|
Description and Year
|
Call Number
|
Alim Qasimov Ensemble
|
Azerbaijan: The Legendary Art of Mugham
|
Mugham (classical) music [1997]
|
CD 1579
|
Dede Gorgud Ensemble
|
Heyva Gulu: Dances and Ashug Melodies from Nakhichevan
|
Mugham (classical) music [1994]
|
CD 1593
|
Haji Baba Huseynov
|
Mugam d'Azerbaidjan
|
Mugham (classical) music performed on Tar (lute) [1991]
|
CD 1555
|
Malik Mansurov
|
Azerbaidjan: le tar de Malik Mansurov/ Azerbaijan: The Tar
of Malik Mansurov
|
Tar (lute) music performed by Malik Mansurov [1997]
|
CD 1514
|
Mugam Ensemble Jabbar Karyagdy
|
Azerbaijan: Land of Flames
|
Mugham (classical) music [1992]
|
CD 1513
|
Mugam Ensemble Jabbar Karyagdy
|
Rast Destgah
|
Azerbaijani music [1993]
|
CD 1515
|
Sakina Ismailova, Arif Asadullaiev, Elkhan Muzafaov |
Sakine Ismailova |
Mugham (classical) music [1993] |
CD 1681 |
various performers |
Azerbayjan: musique traditionelle/Azerbaijan: Traditional Music |
Mugham (classical) music [1984-85] |
CD 1709 |
Baluchistan |
Composer, Performer
|
Title
|
Description and Year
|
Call Number
|
various performers
|
Baloutchistan: musiques d'extase et de guerison
|
Songs and instrumental music of the Baluchi peoples [1992]
|
CD 1782
|
Eurasia and Central Asia - Compilations |
Composer, Performer
|
Title
|
Description and Year
|
Call Number
|
various performers |
Asie centrale: traditions classiques/ Central Asia: Classical
Traditions |
In part traditional vocal and instrumental music sung in
Uzbek, Tajik, and Classical Persian [1993] |
CD 1686 |
various performers |
Khomus: Jew's Harp Music of Turkic People in the Urals, Siberia,
and Central Asia |
Jew's harp music; 1972-1992 field recordings - Turkic peoples
[1995] |
CD 1706 |
various performers
|
The Silk Road: A Musical Caravan
|
Released in conjunction with 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival;
anthology of Eurasian music [2002]
|
CD 1883
|
various performers |
Sufi Soul: echos du paradis |
Sufi music anthology; features several tracks with women performers
[1997] |
CD 1532 |
various performers
|
Voice of Asia: Volume 1
|
CD of 1991 Voice of Asia Contest, Almaty; wide variety of
styles from Central and Inner Asia, Korea [1992]
|
CD 1714
|
Georgia |
Composer, Performer
|
Title
|
Description and Year
|
Call Number
|
Ensemble Kolkheti
|
Oh, Black-Eyed Girl=Shavtvala Gogona: Songs from Georgia
|
Pan-Georgian polyphonic (choral) folk music with some instrumental
accompaniment [1992]
|
CD 1701
|
Ensemble Kutaisi
|
Makruli: Polyphonic Songs from Georgia/Ensemble Kutaisi
|
Religious and secular polyphonic (choral) music from Georgia
[1993]
|
CD 1699
|
various choirs
|
Drinking Horns and Gramophones, 1902-1914
|
Georgian folk songs performed by all-male choirs, recorded
1902-1914 [2001]
|
CD 1693
|
Iran |
Composer, Performer
|
Title
|
Description and Year
|
Call Number
|
Aliakbar Moradi & Pejman Hadadi
|
Whisper: Kurdish Tanbour Music of Iran
|
Kalam (devotional) pieces; majlesi & majasi maqams -
Kurdish music from Iran [2000]
|
CD 1591
|
Haj Ghorban and Alireza Soleimani
|
Music of the Bards from Iran: Haj Ghorban Soleimani
|
Northern Khorasan bakhshi (bard) music accompanied by dutar
[1995]
|
CD 1819
|
Hossein Alizadeh/various performers
|
Neynava: Song of Compassion
|
Nay (flute) with string orchestra [1994]
|
CD 1709
|
Jooya, Nariman Hadjaty, Asim Chalabi, Kamran Klaji
|
Persian Nights: Traditional Folk Music from Iran
|
Slightly operatic singing accompanyed by traditional instruments[1994]
|
CD 1813
|
Khalife Karim Savfati, Khalife Mirza Aghe
|
Kurdistan: Zikr et chants soufis
|
Qadiriyah ritual music, including zikr, litanies, & hymns
-Kurdish music from Iran [1994]
|
CD 1539
|
Razbar Ensemble
|
Sacred Kurdish Songs: A Feast of the Divine
|
Kurdish sacred songs - from Iran and Germany [2000]
|
CD 1501
|
Sharam Nazeri & Ensemble Alizadeh
|
Nowruz: Traditional & Classical Music
|
Classical Persian music from Iran; Kurdistani folk songs
[1995]
|
CD 1505
|
various performers |
Sufi Music: Music Rough Guide |
Diverse recordings of Sufi music (note: only one track with
female singer) - From Turkey, Iran, etc.
[2001] |
CD 1769 |
various performers
|
Sufi Soul: echos du paradis
|
Sufi music anthology; features several tracks with women
performers - Turkey, Iran, Kurdistan, Uzbekistan [1997]
|
CD 1532
|
Kurdistan |
Composer, Performer
|
Title
|
Description and Year
|
Call Number
|
Aliakbar Moradi & Pejman Hadadi
|
Whisper: Kurdish Tanbour Music of Iran
|
Kalam (devotional) pieces; majlesi & majasi maqams -
Kurdish music from Iran [2000]
|
CD 1591
|
The Kamkars
|
Music from Kurdistan: Kamkars Ensemble
|
Instrumental and vocal music of Kurdistan [1999]
|
CD 1822
|
Khalife Karim Savfati, Khalife Mirza Aghe
|
Kurdistan: Zikr et chants soufis
|
Qadiriyah ritual music, including zikr, litanies, & hymns
-Kurdish music from Iran [1994]
|
CD 1539
|
Razbar Ensemble
|
Sacred Kurdish Songs: A Feast of the Divine
|
Kurdish sacred songs - from Iran and Germany [2000]
|
CD 1501
|
Sharam Nazeri & Ensemble Alizadeh
|
Nowruz: Traditional & Classical Music
|
Classical Persian music from Iran; Kurdistani folk songs
[1995]
|
CD 1505
|
Sivan Perwer
|
Chants du Kurdistan/Songs of Kurdistan
|
Mainly traditional folk music; voice and tanbur [1989]
|
CD 1577
|
Temo, Nasir, Bedirxan
|
Chants et musique kurdes/Kurdish Songs and Music
|
Contemporary Kurdish songs composed in traditional style
and form by Temo, Nasir, and Bedirxan - from France [1995]
|
CD 1576
|
various performers
|
Sufi Soul: echos du paradis
|
Sufi music anthology; features several tracks with women
performers - Turkey, Iran, Kurdistan, Uzbekistan [1997]
|
CD 1532
|
Roma |
Composer, Performer
|
Title
|
Description and Year
|
Call Number
|
Istanbul Oriental Ensemble
|
Caravanserai
|
Gypsy band plays Roma music of Istanbul [2000]
|
CD 1585
|
Istanbul Oriental Ensemble; Prosechos |
Sultan's Secret Door |
Gypsy band experiments with Greek and other music [1997] |
CD 1645 |
Sulukule ensemble
|
Rom Music of Istanbul
|
Instrumental and vocal Roma music from Istanbul; in Turkish
[1998]
|
CD 1823
|
various performers |
Istanbul 1925 |
Classical/Folk/Cabaret fusion/compilation by Turks, Greeks,
Jews, Armenians, and Rom recorded in Istanbul,1925-50 [1994] |
CD 1487 |
Sakha Republic - Russian Federation |
Composer, Performer
|
Title
|
Description and Year
|
Call Number
|
National Dance Theatre of the Republic of Sakha
|
Songs and Dances from Yakutia
|
Balalaika, khomus (jew's harp), throat- and shamanic-influenced
singing [2000]
|
CD 1824
|
various performers
|
Yakoutie: epopees et improvisations/Yakutia: Epics and Improvisations
|
Olonkho (epic) and other songs; kyrympa (fiddle); khomus
(jew's harp) [1990]
|
CD 1707
|
Tajikistan |
Composer, Performer
|
Title
|
Description and Year
|
Call Number
|
Jurabeg Nabiev and Dorrdane Ensemble
|
Tadjikistan: Maqam Nava
|
Instrumental and vocal music of Tajikistan [1997]
|
CD 1775
|
various performers |
Asie centrale: traditions classiques/ Central Asia: Classical
Traditions |
In part traditional vocal and instrumental music sung in
Uzbek, Tajik, and Classical Persian [1993] |
CD 1686 |
various performers
|
Badakhshan: Mystical Poetry and Songs from the Pamir Mountains
|
Ismaili music from Gorno-Badakhshan area; 1992 field recordings
[1994]
|
CD 1694
|
various performers
|
Badakhshan: Pamir, chants et musiques du toit du mond/Badakhshan:
Pamirs songs and music form the roof of the world
|
Folk music from the Pamir Mountains [2000]
|
CD 1684
|
Turkey and Ottoman Empire |
Composer, Performer
|
Title
|
Description and Year
|
Call Number
|
Ali Ekber Cicek
|
Turkey: Bektashi music: Ashik Songs/Turquie: musique bektachi:
chants des achik
|
Ashik (divine love) songs sung by ozan (bard); with saz
and other instruments [1996]
|
CD 1783
|
Bayram Bilge Toker
|
Bayram: Turkish Folk Songs and Sufi Melodies
|
Two Sufi pieces; vocals & baglama (saz) [1990]
|
CD 1536
|
Bezmara ensemble
|
Turkey: Splendors of Topkapi
|
16th- & 17th-Century Ottoman court music performed on
original instruments [1994]
|
CD 1788
|
Coskun Abdi, Fahreddin Cimenli
|
Turquie: l'art du tanbur ottoman/Art of the Ottoman Tanbur
|
Ottoman tanbur music [1990]
|
CD 1781
|
Ensemble des femmes d'Istanbul
|
Chants du harem
|
Women's Ottoman vocal & instrumental palace music [1994]
|
CD 1700
|
Goksel Kartal, Seydo Salifoski
|
The art of Taksim: Goksel Kartal
|
Qanun music [1994]
|
CD 1779
|
Istanbul Oriental Ensemble
|
Caravanserai
|
Gypsy band plays Roma music of Istanbul [2000]
|
CD 1585
|
Istanbul Oriental Ensemble; Prosechos |
Sultan's Secret Door |
Gypsy band experiments with Greek and other music [1997] |
CD 1645 |
Kani Karadja |
Turquie, cantillation coranique |
Koranic chant [1997] |
CD 1998 |
Kudsi Erguner Ensemble |
Fasl: Musique de l'Empire ottoman/ Fasl: Music of the Ottoman
Empire |
Music of 'Tulip Era' of Sultan Ahmet III (1703-1730); makam
Hidjaz Homayoun [1990] |
CD 1785 |
Kudsi Erguner Ensemble |
The Works of Tatyos Effendi |
Ottoman art music; vol. 1: instrumental; vol. 2: vocal masterpieces
[1996] |
CD 1570 |
Kudsi Erguner Ensemble, Yusef Bilgin, Fevzi Misir, Aziz Bahriyeli |
Gazel: Classical Sufi Music of the Ottoman Empire |
Ghazals & Sufi music of the Ottoman Empire [1991] |
CD 1646 |
Lalezar |
Minority Composers: Music of the Sultans, Sufis, and Seraglio,
Vol. 3 |
Turn-of-20th-Century Ottoman art and nightclub music by Armenian,
Greek, and Jewish composers [2001] |
CD 1491 |
Lalezar |
Music of the Dancing Boys: Music of the Sultans, Sufis & Seraglio
vol. 2 |
Ottoman music of kocek (boy transvestite) dancers [2000] |
CD 1549 |
Lalezar |
Ottoman Suite: Music of the Sultans, Sufis, and Seraglio, Vol.
4 |
Ottoman classical music: segah, isfahan makams and more [2001] |
CD 1492 |
Lalezar |
Sultan Composers: Music of the Sultans, Sufis & Seraglio
vol. 1 |
Ottoman art music composed by sultans |
CD 1548 |
Munir Nurettin Beken |
The Art of the Turkish Ud |
Makam (classical) music performed on ud [1997] |
CD 1541 |
Necdet Yasar Ensemble |
Music of Turkey: The Necdet Yasar Ensemble |
Turkish folk songs [1992] |
CD 1780 |
Talip Ozkan |
Mysteries of Turkey: Talip Ozkan |
Compositions based on traditional taqsim music performed
vocally and with saz by Talip Ozkan [1990] |
CD 1690 |
Talip Ozkan |
Turquie: l'art du tanbur |
Makam (classical) music played on tanbur (lute) [1994] |
CD 1647 |
Udi Hrant Kenkulian & various backup musicians
|
Udi Hrant, The Early Recordings. Volume 1
|
Ud/vocal music recorded between 1935 & 1950 (Armenians-Turkey)
[1995]
|
CD 1538
|
various performers
|
Armenians on 8th Avenue
|
Cabaret and traditional music of New York diaspora Turkish,
Turkish-Armenian, Greek, and Jewish communities in 1940's [1996]
|
CD 1772
|
various performers |
The Islamic Music of the Sect of Bektasi: Hymns of the Sacred
Koran |
Bektasi Sufi music, Islamic hymns [1999] |
CD 969 |
various performers |
Istanbul 1925 |
Classical/Folk/Cabaret fusion/compilation by Turks, Greeks,
Jews, Armenians, and Rom recorded in Istanbul,1925-50 [1994] |
CD 1487 |
various performers |
Masters of Turkish Music |
Vocal/instrumental music of gazel, sarki, ciftetelli, taksim,
and other genres, early 20th Century [1990] |
CD 1051 |
various performers |
Masters of Turkish Music: Volume 2 |
Composed and improvised vocal and instrumental music, including
gazel, sarki, taksim, and turku, 1906-1949 [1996] |
CD 1702 |
various performers |
Sufi Music: Music Rough Guide |
Diverse recordings of Sufi music (note: only one track with
female singer) [2001] |
CD 1769 |
various performers
|
Sufi Soul: echos du paradis
|
Sufi music anthology; features several tracks with women
performers - Turkey, Iran, Kurdistan, Uzbekistan [1997]
|
CD 1532
|
various performers |
Turquie: musiques villageoises d'Anatolie/Turkey: Anatolian
Village Music |
Rural folk music: festivals, oral tradition, and women's songs,
1968-86. [1994] |
CD 1776 |
various performers |
Women of Istanbul |
Popular female cabaret singers, 1920-mid-1940s [1998] |
CD 1553 |
Turkmenistan |
Composer, Performer
|
Title
|
Description and Year
|
Call Number
|
Ashkhabad (musical group)
|
City of Love: Ashkhabad
|
Popular music played on traditional and other instruments
[1993]
|
CD 1703
|
Djamala Saparova, Leila Shadurdieva, Shemshat Hodjaeva,
Akmurad Chariev
|
Turkmenistan: chants des femmes bakhshi/Turkmenistan: Songs
of Bakhshi Women
|
Turkmen folk music and epic poetry sung by women [1995]
|
CD 1697
|
various performers
|
Turkmenistan: Music of the Bakhshy
|
Vocal/instrumental principally bakhshi (bard) music of various
Turkmen tribes [1991]
|
CD 1820
|
Tuva, Altai, Bashkir - Russian Federation |
Composer, Performer
|
Title
|
Description and Year
|
Call Number
|
Chirgilchin group
|
The Wolf and the Kid: Chirgilchin
|
Tuvan folk songs performed by young musicians [1996]
|
CD 1685
|
Huun-Huur-Tu
|
Huun-Huur Tu: 60 Horses in My Herd
|
Tuvan folk songs (incl. throat-singing) with a unique twist
[1998]
|
CD 1818
|
Huun-Huur-Tu
|
If I'd Been Born an Eagle: Huun-Huur-Tu
|
Old Tuvan songs and tunes with a unique twist [1997]
|
CD 1688
|
various performers
|
Tuvan Singers & Musicians: Choomej Throat Singing from
the Center of Asia
|
Different examples of choomej singing; komus (jew's harp) [1993]
|
CD 1821
|
various performers
|
Uzlyau: Guttural Singing of the Peoples of the Sayan, Altai,
and Ural Mountains
|
Field and studio recordings in Tuva, Altai and Bashkir areas,
1972-1992 [1993]
|
CD 1691
|
Uighurs - China |
Composer, Performer
|
Title
|
Description and Year
|
Call Number
|
Sadiyana ensemble
|
Bu Dunya/This World: Songs and Melodies of the Uighurs
|
Maqam (classical) and folk music [1995]
|
CD 1687
|
various performers
|
Instrumental Music of the Uighurs
|
Instrumental music of the Uighurs of Xinjiang Province,
China [1991]
|
CD 1683
|
Uzbekistan |
Composer, Performer
|
Title
|
Description and Year
|
Call Number
|
Ari Babakhanov & Ensemble
|
Shashmaqam: The Traditions of Bukhara
|
Jewish/Muslim Bukharan classical tradition [2000]
|
CD 1678
|
Jewish and Muslim musicians
|
Bukhara: Musical Crossroads of Asia
|
Jewish and Muslim secular and religious folk and classical
music [1991]
|
CD 1488
|
Monajat Yultchieva & Shawqat Mirzaev
|
Ouzbekistan: Monajat Yultchieva
|
Mainly traditional maqam (classical) music of Ferghana Valley
[1994]
|
CD 1773
|
Munadjat Yulchieva and Ensemble Shavkat Mirzaev
|
Uzbekistan: A Haunting Voice/ Munadjat Yulchieva and Ensemble
Shavkat Mirzaev
|
Traditional music of Ferghana Valley [1997]
|
CD 1692
|
Shohrat Razzakov, Soltan-Ali Khodaverdiev, Abdovali Abdorashidov
|
Ouzbekistan: l'art du dotar/Uzbekistan: The Art of the Dotar
|
Classical Uzbek music on dotar (silk-stringed instrument)
[1997]
|
CD 1770
|
Turgun and Alisher Alimatov
|
Ouzbekistan: Turgun Alimatov
|
Contemporary classical Uzbek music [1995]
|
CD 1771
|
various performers |
Asie centrale: traditions classiques/ Central Asia: Classical
Traditions |
In part traditional vocal and instrumental music sung in
Uzbek, Tajik, and Classical Persian [1993] |
CD 1686 |
various performers
|
Music of Central Asia: Uzbekistan
|
Uzbek vocal and instrumental folk music [1991]
|
CD 1787
|
various performers |
Ouzbekistan: les grandes voix du passe/Uzbekistan: Great Voices
of the Past |
Sacred & other vocal/instrumental recordings from early
20th Century [1999] |
CD 1689 |
various performers
|
Sufi Soul: echos du paradis
|
Sufi music anthology; features several tracks with women
performers - Turkey, Iran, Kurdistan, Uzbekistan [1997]
|
CD 1532
|
Yulduz Usmanova |
Alma Alma |
Music of Uzbek pop star of Madonna-like fame [1994] |
CD 1680 |
Zavra Alimova, Fattokhon Mamadaliev |
Traditions orales d'Ouzbekistan/Oral Traditions of Uzbekistan |
Uzbek maqam music [1996] |
CD 1788 |
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