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Here i share a link that you can listen to different kinds of pieces.

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ORIGINAL: ernandez R

I have always been surprised how my mind and perhaps my soul has been attracted to these modal musics. As a child raised in Southern California; my mother played Elvis, Harry Belafonte, and Strauss Waltzes on her record player and my father listen to old school country western on the AM radio in his dusty old pickup truck.

There was one album with Belafonte and a popular Greek singer Mousekouri cut in '66 which has what I believe to be a handful of Greek standards. I was born in '65 so sure I was listening to this fairly early and often. I still play the album today as it is one of my top ten of all time.

I always had this idea that our brains become wired through exposure to the tonal modes we are first exposed to and most likely while still in utero.

The other idea as there may be a more basic genetic predisposition to certain rhythmic and tonal values.

Regardless I find these so called eastern musics more satisfying then the Bach-esc music of the west in so many ways. Perhaps Im Just bored with western music. Now I'm wondering if one exposed to only eastern music finds a similar opposite fascination?

HR

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ORIGINAL: Boran

Hi devilhand; i was just hangin around and saw your post by coincidence. I was really surprised when i listened to the music you shared. The music style and the instrument being played here is also one of the good examples of the Classical Turkish Music. The İnstrument is called " Ud" in our language. There are some more instruments which are really unique and sound really nice in this traditional kind. Here i share a link that you can listen to different kinds of pieces. All of them are performed with a "Ud" and all of them has a different form just like flamenco. Form is called "Makam" in this type of music. Like "Hicaz", " Kürd-i", " Nihavent" and so on...If you already knew what i explained here about this music and the instrument and its relation between Turkish music , then sorry to take your time :) But if not,and you are really interested in what you will hear, i can try to answer any question you'll ask. Take care.

Heres the link..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA_42SUGDoc

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There was one album with Belafonte and a popular Greek singer Mousekouri cut in '66 which has what I believe to be a handful of Greek standards.

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ORIGINAL: Boran

Hi devilhand. "Taksim" means the enterance part of the song in Turkish Classical music.One of the performers (can be any instrument) performs an opening ,presents the form of the song and the song starts.The album i shared is a collection of these openings of the songs so the song never starts.

There are 3-5 seconds silences, because in "Taksim" theres no tempo, ne metronome.It is performend all independent untill the song starts. I will share a video for that.

And finally, the similarity of the kinds you mentioned is a result of the origin of this music. Actually they are all same, coming from Arabian culture. So i can clearly say that Turkish Classical music is not really Turkish Music. Its a form lasted and kind of developed since the Ottoman Empire did exist.It was performed in the palace of the Sultan , in the times which there were some kind of encounters with the Arabs i guess.Real Turkish music is the folk music being performed in different geographic areas in the country. Also they have very different forms between,depending on the area.Just like flamenco.I d like to share an example of that too. I hope i could answer your question in some ways. Take care.

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As this is a fretless instrument it going to take some time to get used to the keyboard but also it will be a nice experience to hear that fretless tone while your fingers slide on the keyboard.