Please watch these videos before class on April 5! For the longer ones (especially #5 and #6), you will get the idea if you watch the first 5-10 minutes.
- “Dance of the Kurds and Sabre Dance” from the ballet Gayane by Aram Khachaturian (Armenia)
- “The Peddler’s Aria” from the opera (really an operetta) Arshin Mal Alan by Uzeyir Hajibeyov (Azerbaijan)
- A traditional song played on the qobyz (Kazakhstan)
- “Spanish Fantasia” for kobyz and piano by Igor Frolov (Russia/Kazakhstan)
- A traditional mugam performed on folk instruments with singer (Azerbaijan)
- “Sur (symphonic mugam)” by Fikret Amirov (Azerbaijan)
