Frogtoon Music - Genre information for Kurdish-Folk
Traditionally Many Kurdish Folk Songs Are Epic In Nature. Love Songs Dance Music Wedding And Other Celebratory Songs Erotic Poetry And Work Songs Are Also Popular. Kurdish Music Instruments Are The Tembûr Biziq Qernête Bilûr Simşal Cûzele Kemençe Def Zirne And Dahol. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There Are Three Types Of Kurdish Classical Performers - Storytellers Çîrokbêj Minstrels Stranbêj And Bards Dengbêj . There Was No Specific Music Related To The Kurdish Princely Courts And Instead Music Performed In Night Gatherings Şevbihêrk Is Considered Classical. Several Musical Forms Are Found In This Genre. Many Songs Are Epic In Nature Such As The Popular Lawiks Which Are Heroic Ballads Recounting The Tales Of Kurdish Heroes Such As Saladin. Heyrans Are Love Ballads Usually Expressing The Melancholy Of Separation And Unfulfilled Love. Lawje Is A Form Of Religious Music And Payizoks Are Songs Performed Specifically In Autumn. Love Songs Dance Music Wedding And Other Celebratory Songs Dîlok / Narînk And Bend Erotic Poetry And Work Songs Are Also Popular. Musical Instruments Include The Tembûr Tembûr Saz Biziq Bozuk Qernête Duduk And Bilûr Kaval In Northern And Western Kurdistan Şimşal Long Flute Cûzele Kemençe And Def Frame Drum In The South And East. Zirne Wooden Shawm And Dahol Drum Are Found In All Parts Of Kurdistan. The Most Frequently Used Song Form Has Two Verses With Ten Syllable Lines. Kurdish Songs Stran Or Goranî Are Characterized By Their Simple Melodies With A Range Of Only Four Or Five Notes. Historically Kurdish Music Has Very Ancient Roots That Go Back To The Hurrian Period Of Kurdish History. The Hurrians - The Ancestors Of The Modern Kurds - Were An Ancient People That Inhabited Present-Day Kurdistan And Established Several Kingdoms Before Their Aryanization By The Coming Medes. A Hurrian Tablet Dating Back To The 13th Century B.C. Was Discovered In Ugaret It Contains In Its Upper Portion The Text Of A Hurrian Hymn. In The Lower Portion It Contains A Series Of Numbers And Technical Terms That Have Been Interpreted As A Score Rendering The Tune To Which The Hymn Would Have Been Sung. This Is Then The Earliest Known Musical Score In History. Interestingly The Meqam In Which The Hymn Was Composed Corresponds With The Modern Meqam "Kurd". Kurdish Musicians Had A Great Role In The Musical Life Of The Islamic Caliphate. Ziryab Was One Among The Absolutely Greatest Musicians In The Islamic Era. He Brought The Middle Eastern Musical Tradition To Muslim Spain And Trained Local Musicians In His Style. He Also Invented Many Maqams And Musical Forms And Improved The Design Of The 'ûd. Ibrahim Mûsili And Is'haq Mûsili Were Considered Among The Greatest Musicians Of The Abbasid Court. They Wrote Several First-Rate Works On Local Iranic And Mesopotamian Styles. Musicologists Like Safi Al-Din Ûrmawi - The Founder Of The Systematist School Of Music Wright 1978 - And Muhammad Al-Khatib Arbîlî Who Wrote Some Of The Most Seminal Works On Middle Eastern Musicology. Kurdish-Folk Every artist, every band, and every song you can imagine, from the newest to the oldest, are easily accessible through Frogtoon Music. Get ready to indulge yourself and allow the music to enrich your soul, ignite your passion, awaken your emotions, and bring back some beautiful memories. The following is a directory of top artists and bands from Kurdish Folk: As you visit their pages, you will be presented with a list of popular videos, top tracks, recommended mixes, and music from all the albums they released. In addition, within each page, you can access and discover music from similar artists and bands.