Updates on research

I have alot of research to update here as I never been updating much for the past week. Ahhh All these research which I never presented. Like what Miss Tina said, I chose the wrong ones to present, leaving them clueless to what I was saying. I might be dividing it into parts to look more clean.

First, I took a look at Kurdish music (from the middle eastern music).

WHAT KURDISH MUSIC IS FOR:

From historical chronicles to lyric poetry and from epics to literary works, all are sung, everything is put to music in order to be better or more easily memorised and thus handed down to posterity.

Kurdish music is, then, principally folk music and "anonymous". The circumstances of its origins and development are, in fact, very diverse and difficult to establish with accuracy. originally purely vocal, a song was often composed by a woman wishing to express her feelings of sadness or, more rarely, of joy. It might also break forth in the course of the poetic contests the young men and women indulged in on their return along mountain paths or at other gatherings of young people: nocturnal meetings in the village square, New Year's celebrations, marriage ceremonies which might last from three days to three weeks. or, then again, a song might be created from the blow of tragic events.

The first 2 para are taken from http://www.institutkurde.org/en/kurdorama/music/

So, after all the songs have been composed and created, they were given to the BARDS (called dengbej) to popularize it. A little information about bards...Bards travel from village to village, encampment to encampment, to promote the songs. Bards are usually specialize in one type of musical instrument. Interesting...

BARDS



Transmitted orally from generation to generation, the song, as a general rule, retains quite faithfully its original words. But the melody is only a very supple frame, subject to constant modifications and to continuous renewal a renewal which helps to perfect the music and provides a guarantee of its perennial quality.

I think Bard is an interesting element which I can use for my short film/docu/info design or whatever which I still havent figure it out YET!! ARGH!!!

Kurdish have also had influences on the NOMAD and its way of life.

More info on kurdish music culture can be found in this website http://www.institutkurde.org/en/kurdorama/music/