Zakaria Rojin Esmail Chopy Hesen Narin kurdi Ayas Natali Mixed Qahar Helen Blend Diyar Ayad H.Zaxoiy Kader Sevger Xero hovik kurdi Iraqi Songs Sheriban Ronak Delir Tanya M.Jaza Thirdplanet Natalia Blind Ayub Xwlamy Dana Zereen F. Akrayi Arabic links Sheriban Gondy Qaliqi Khanger Naze Karwan Folk Dance Adnan Bendi		This page holds information about some of our most popular and beloved Kurdish singers.  These individuals are among the finest musicians Kurdistan has to offer; together, they represent the great cultural wealth of Kurdish music. What is Music? By Lorin Atroushi Music is any kind of harmony that people enjoy listening to. It doesn't have to involve guitars, drums, or voices. What sounds better than the water streaming down from a beautiful waterfall in the middle of a dark dense forest? Music liked most is repeated with rhymes and smoothly flows repeating the same message, over and over. It is somewhat forced what kind of music you like. Attempt this, if you don't believe me. Buy a decent CD in the store of music that you have never heard. Listen to it about ten times through, and you will probably start to enjoy the beats and harmony produced. You just have to give some music a chance to find your ear. Sure, some people are prone to some kinds of music, but what I'm saying is that every kind of music can be found enjoyable. And the music you like is really only based off what music is played in your environment and accepted in your mind. Music is science It is exact, specific; and it demands exact acoustics. A Conductor's full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time. Music is mathematical It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done, not worked out on paper. Music is a foreign language The terms are in one of any language ; and the notation is certainly not English but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language. Music is history Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creations, often even the country and/ or racial feeling. Music is physical education It requires fantastic coordination of finger, hands, arms, lip, cheek, and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets. Music is all of these things, but most of all Music is art It allows a human being to take all these dry, technically boring (but difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing science cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling,  emotion, call it what you will. Kurdish Music By Christian Poche Kurdish music belongs to the same family as Persian music, but its main characteristic, as in Indian music, is the exploration of the octave. the basic structure is a model development in which the elements are elaborated and organized by improvisation in such a way as always to result in a melodic rhythmic conclusion. In the musical construction the improvisation at the outset is balanced by means of a measured concluding part. Kurdish music is neither learned music nor folk music, but all in one. Like Persian music, it is passionate, sensuous music, very often tinged with a profound melancholy. Although close to each other, these two worlds are very different and cannot be confused when heard, Persian music being more refined and that of the Kurds being more instinctive and more impulsive. At first sight, the way the Kurdish musician considers his art may appear disconcerting to a westerner, for there exists no terminology indispensable in defining the phenomenon of sound. There are no precise terms relating to the art of making music; the rules, the forms, and the musical scales are in the Kurdish language all associated with concrete phenomena. the basic notation are expressed by simple terms taken from daily life and generalized. In Kurdish the word "music" is conveyed by the term "saz", a word of Persian origin which signifies both music and any musical instrument or a particular musical instrument. Another term employed in the same way is "tanbur," which likewise designates music and particular stringed instrument. This term has long been the subject of a sharp controversy: is the origin of the long-necked lute found in India and attested in ninth-century Poland by Arabic writers to be sought in Sanskrit and does it mean the instrument which gives the "tone?" Does it come from Sumer, as some authorities maintain? Or is it a legacy of the Scytho-Sarmatians and thus of the Caucasian civiliz ation? When a Kurdish musician talks about music he never refers to concept with which we are familiar on account of formal or expressive connotations. To convey the idea of improvisation he uses a term which means "work", in the sense of "working" an instrument. A musician gifted with great inspiration is spoken of as one who knows what he has to do, a difficulty in execution is interpreted in terms of a mountain that has to be crossed. The construction of musical form can be presented as the healing of a wound,.		Shivan Naser Lorin Silan Diden Narin KENDES Roj Karim Reybar Waheed Mahabad Risgar Koshnaw Layla Ardalan Amedy Marewan Sardar Ziyad Zerak Jezery Kawes Issa Garmavi Pirshang Wahid Erdawan Semail Govand Feyz Dana Dyari Mahdy Dilshad Judy M.Akraiy Dilshad Hawta Jowan Xelil Manal Paywand Dara Shahin Samir Bedil Hozan Blind