New Year's present

Dear colleagues, friends, good fellows,

In the link below, please navigate to my webpage's musical works section
to listen to your new year's present:

http://www.ozanyarman.com/musics.html

There, I have uploaded a re-mix of the original 2004 computer recording
of my "Cyprus Piano Concerto" which I have digitally mastered just last
week. The score is not yet ready, but I'm sure you will appreciate
hearing the music!

Please be patient as the Flash widget loads the file when you click on
it, since it's quite large even for an mp3 file, given that the whole
piece is 23 minutes long.

As it is written on my webpage, the work consists of 4 movements in the
typical concerto style, except that it is embroidered with Turkish and
Balkanish motifs (for my ancestors were old Turkic settlers from
Albania) including some distinctive microtonal passages!

Notice, in the first movement, passages utilizing the Huzzam maqam in
polyphony through the graceful and resounding French Horn section.
Actually, the highest part is supposed to be some sort of Cornet or
Flugelhorn, which I expect to ascend those treble registers demanded by
the melody. Note again, in the third movement, the application of maqam
Neveser on the Schubertian opening bass melody and what follows!

I had had made the original recording using a Yamaha MU80 tone module,
or else, its PCI replica: Yamaha SW1000XG. In any case, the pitches in
the aforesaid passages were bent haphazardly to produce my understanding
of the correct maqam perdes. I honestly cannot say what the tunings are,
for I employed the notorious MIDI pitch bend wheel to arrive at the
results you hear. But I'm confident some multiple of 12-tone equal
temperament might readily account for them.

This concerto has been performed - "wrecked", should I say? - in a
concert by a student symphony orchestra in Istanbul back in 2004. The
fault might also lie partially with me for having composed the whole
thing in short of two weeks and grudgingly undertaken right after to
prepare the instrument parts on my own. At the time, the Annan Plan was
either put to vote in Cyprus, or was about to be. My support had then
been for the embracement of the Annan Plan and still is; hence, this
concerto is a monumental offering for the longing of peace between
Cypriots who have been sent to regrettable clashes at the goading of
fascistic manipulations from both their overbearers.

From the final movement, I have extracted, again in 2004, the "Cyprus
March", composed for a united, unified island nation. This march can be
sung in both Turkish and English, and possibly Greek as well (if
somebody would care to translate it). The lyrics are again by yours truly:

Hush, and just hearken to the voice from the earth.
They, as though, are tongued; every grain speaks a word!
What you hear is a musical aire of Cyprus, fair,
Mediterrannean's chant and joyous cheer!

O hear! O hear!

Whose soil is one lush-green paradise;
Pure of climate, and too ambience.
Lovely isle of Mediterranean,
Isle of kindred peoples...

O Cyprus! Cyprus!

Come, behold Cyprus's horizon - vast, unbound!
Can you say elsewhere such a passion could be found?
Roaring waves, in likeness, surging within thunderstorms;
Like the blowing tempest, mad as swarms!

O hear! O hear!

Whose soil is one lush-green paradise;
Pure of climate, and too ambience.
Lovely isle of Mediterranean,
Isle of kindred peoples...

O Cyprus! Cyprus!

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Comments welcome!
Dr. Oz.

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www.ozanyarman.com

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A wonderful Piece Ozan!
- Thanks for sharing~!

/^_,',',',_ //^/Kraig Grady_^_,',',',_
Mesotonal Music from:
_'''''''_ ^North/Western Hemisphere:
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/>

_'''''''_^South/Eastern Hemisphere:
Austronesian Outpost of Anaphoria <http://anaphoriasouth.blogspot.com/>

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a momentary antenna as i turn to water
this evaporates - an island once again

On 1/01/11 1:00 PM, Ozan Yarman wrote:
>
>
> Dear colleagues, friends, good fellows,
>
> In the link below, please navigate to my webpage's musical > works section to listen to your new year's present:
>
> http://www.ozanyarman.com/musics.html
>
> There, I have uploaded a re-mix of the original 2004 computer > recording of my "Cyprus Piano Concerto" which I have digitally > mastered just last week. The score is not yet ready, but I'm > sure you will appreciate hearing the music!
>
> Please be patient as the Flash widget loads the file when you > click on it, since it's quite large even for an mp3 file, > given that the whole piece is 23 minutes long.
>
> As it is written on my webpage, the work consists of 4 > movements in the typical concerto style, except that it is > embroidered with Turkish and Balkanish motifs (for my > ancestors were old Turkic settlers from Albania) including > some distinctive microtonal passages!
>
> Notice, in the first movement, passages utilizing the Huzzam > maqam in polyphony through the graceful and resounding French > Horn section. Actually, the highest part is supposed to be > some sort of Cornet or Flugelhorn, which I expect to ascend > those treble registers demanded by the melody. Note again, in > the third movement, the application of maqam Neveser on the > Schubertian opening bass melody and what follows!
>
> I had had made the original recording using a Yamaha MU80 tone > module, or else, its PCI replica: Yamaha SW1000XG. In any > case, the pitches in the aforesaid passages were bent > haphazardly to produce my understanding of the correct maqam > perdes. I honestly cannot say what the tunings are, for I > employed the notorious MIDI pitch bend wheel to arrive at the > results you hear. But I'm confident some multiple of 12-tone > equal temperament might readily account for them.
>
> This concerto has been performed - "wrecked", should I say? - > in a concert by a student symphony orchestra in Istanbul back > in 2004. The fault might also lie partially with me for having > composed the whole thing in short of two weeks and grudgingly > undertaken right after to prepare the instrument parts on my > own. At the time, the Annan Plan was either put to vote in > Cyprus, or was about to be. My support had then been for the > embracement of the Annan Plan and still is; hence, this > concerto is a monumental offering for the longing of peace > between Cypriots who have been sent to regrettable clashes at > the goading of fascistic manipulations from both their > overbearers.
>
> From the final movement, I have extracted, again in 2004, the > "Cyprus March", composed for a united, unified island nation. > This march can be sung in both Turkish and English, and > possibly Greek as well (if somebody would care to translate > it). The lyrics are again by yours truly:
>
> Hush, and just hearken to the voice from the earth.
> They, as though, are tongued; every grain speaks a word!
> What you hear is a musical aire of Cyprus, fair,
> Mediterrannean's chant and joyous cheer!
>
> O hear! O hear!
>
> Whose soil is one lush-green paradise;
> Pure of climate, and too ambience.
> Lovely isle of Mediterranean,
> Isle of kindred peoples...
>
> O Cyprus! Cyprus!
>
> Come, behold Cyprus's horizon - vast, unbound!
> Can you say elsewhere such a passion could be found?
> Roaring waves, in likeness, surging within thunderstorms;
> Like the blowing tempest, mad as swarms!
>
> O hear! O hear!
>
> Whose soil is one lush-green paradise;
> Pure of climate, and too ambience.
> Lovely isle of Mediterranean,
> Isle of kindred peoples...
>
> O Cyprus! Cyprus!
>
>
> ---------
>
> Comments welcome!
> Dr. Oz.
>
> -- >
> ✩ ✩ ✩
> www.ozanyarman.com
>
>
>