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A small sample of Sangari music

🔗Herman Miller <hmiller@...>

3/3/2013 2:12:06 PM

I wanted to get some idea of what Sangari music sounds like, so I put together a little sample. I picked instruments based on words that I happen to have in Tirelat and Jarda, which sounds like a haphazard way to put a group together, but it turned out all right. Then I needed a tuning that I haven't used in Zireen music, so I picked maqamic[17].

https://sites.google.com/site/teamouse/vini.mp3?attredirects=0

Instruments are from Garritan World Instruments and Garritan Jazz & Big Band: ukulele, jogi baja, alphorn, banjo, acoustic guitar, and handbells. The tuning is centered around C, but the music is mainly in the key of G minor.

I'm not familiar with a jogi baja, but I picked it because I wanted something that sounded like an oboe that wasn't an orchestral oboe. Wikipedia doesn't know what it is. I'd like to find something that doesn't sound as much like a guitar and a banjo, but so far the regular guitar and banjo seems to work out better than the alternatives.

I was a little skeptical about how an essentially quartertone scale would work with harmony, but with acoustic instrument samples it seems reasonably good.