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Saz Semai

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Acem Kurdi Saz Semai

I had the privelage to study composition with Ross Daly, under whose guidance I learned how to write in a modal idiom, and in a range of genres typical of the Ottoman era and broad west Asian region. One of these genres is the saz semai, which has a metre Read more…

By rachel, 6 years6 months ago
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