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Can someone identify the origin of this piece?

fernandraynaud - 8-10-2010 at 04:13 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS-h21mELi8&feature=youtube_gdat...

I can't find anything about this great piece, of course not knowing Arabic doesn't help. Is it a folk tune (from where), is it widely known, is it Shamma's own composition (as the thickness of the chords suggests), or what? Thanks!

I think Shamma looks so much better and 10 years younger without his beard!

BTW, I found a Malagnuena that is INCREDIBLE, it's Adabi AL Johar's and this cat can play the oud, just a little bit ... my Gawd! :cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKXDvHMyOzc&feature=related





Abo Zaina - 8-15-2010 at 11:50 AM

Hi Fernandraynaud

It is awesome piece of art

the name is Raqset Al Faras ( the dance of a horse)
Nassir wrote this piece after he saw a beautiful Arabic horse in Amman 1988
(Ref. http://www.aljazeera.net/News/archive/archive?ArchiveId=59319 )

here is a link of the search results for this piece in arabic:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%D8%B1%D9%82%D8%B5%D8%A...

you will find saz version by Joan Farhan that is amazing too (no 3 in the results)

Regards



Reda Aouad - 8-15-2010 at 01:30 PM

You can find a version of the score on my website:

http://www.redaaouad.com/music-sheets

fernandraynaud - 8-16-2010 at 01:21 PM

Reda, wow! how on earth do you do all these transcriptions?

Reda Aouad - 8-16-2010 at 11:25 PM

I didn't write anything :shrug:

It's just part of the collection I made over the years.. collected from several forums and sources and friends.. but not Issa Boulos' archive (http://www.issaboulos.com/archive) which he made himself, and is a much better source of music sheets.

There's a new wave of music sheets coming soon to my collection as well..