Music of Badakhshan
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Badakhshan is a region of Tajikistan and Afghanistan with a unique musical heritage, especially that of the remote Pamiri Ismailis. Badakhshan's unique folk scene is said to be characteristed by the use of many chromatized tones (especially in falak) in a narrow melodic range, and the use of a characteristic minor-like scale [1].
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[edit] Instrumentation
Lutes are an extremely important part of Pamiri music, especially the three-stringed shortneck lute played with a wooden plectrum; this is called the rubab-i pamiri. Other vatities of lute in Badakhshan include the komus, a three-stringed but unfretted lute played by th Kirghiz of eastern Badakhshan, the tanbur, a seven-stringed lute with sympathetic strings, the setar, with three melody strings and a number of sympathetic strings; the imported Afghan rubab and Azerbaijani tar are also a major part of Badakhshan's lute heritage [2].
Other instruments include the nay, a kind of flute, and the ghijak-i pamiri, a spiked fiddle; the circular frame drum daf is also common, as is the accordion, brought by Russians.
[edit] Vocal music
Pamiri music has a characteristic throaty, nasal sound which is a distinguishing characteristic of the area's vocal style. The madah is a kind of sung religious poetry, accompanied by rubabs and/or tanbyr with at least one daf [3].
[edit] List of Badakhshani Musicians
- Oleg Fesov from Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan.
- Muboraksho Mirzoshoyev from Roshan District in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan.
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