ÿþ<html> <head><title>Sirman's "Most beautiful Music," CD_08: Middle East Nights</title> <!--Sirman's "Sirman's "Most beautiful Music," CD_08: Middle East Nights--> <META content="YouTube, Sirman, Celayir, music, belly_dance, Arabic_music, Turkish_music, Middle_East, darbouka, Nadia_Gamal, Umm_Kulthum, Enta_Omri, Sirat_El_Hob, Ansak, Afaf_Radi, Fairuz, Ilham_Al_Matfai, Warda, Müzeyyen_Senar, Safiye_Ayla, Hamiyet_Yüceses, Zeki_Müren, Emel_Say1n" name=keywords> <META content="Sirman's "Sirman's "Most beautiful Music," CD_08: Middle East Nights" name=description> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1254"> <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="TR"> </head> <body bgcolor="silver" text="black" link="maroon" vlink="maroon"> <CENTER> <H2><a href="../zaudio1.html"><Font color=red>CD_08: Middle East Nights</font></a><BR><Font size=2 color=blue>(Page as of Oct. 3, 2009)</font></H2> <H4>Click the heading above to return to Sirman's Music CDs<BR>or <!-- BEGIN WebSTAT Activation Code --> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://hits.webstat.com/cgi-bin/wsv2.cgi?55462"></script> <noscript> <a href="http://www.webstat.com"> <img SRC="http://hits.webstat.com/scripts/wsb.php?ac=55462" border="0" alt="WebSTAT - Free Web Statistics"></a> </noscript> <!-- END WebSTAT Activation Code --> <BR>Click a line below to play that piece on YouTube.com or last.fm</H4> <table align=center border="1" cellpadding="0" width="1100"> <FONT size=3 color=black>Most of the MP3s I have in my collection for this CD are not on YouTube or the Internet, so I had to substitute from pieces that are available. Nevertheless, the list below covers a good spectrum of Middle East sounds, including some of the best.</FONT> <td align="left" valign="top" width="500" border=2> <H5> <center><H2>Arabic</H2></center> <FONT size=1 color=black>Any list of 20th Century Arab music must start with this name. On the occasion of her passing, biographer Virginia Danielson wrote in Harvard Magazine, "Imagine a singer with the virtuosity of Joan Sutherland or Ella Fitzgerald, the public persona of Eleanor Roosevelt and the audience of Elvis and you have Umm Kulthum, the most accomplished singer of her century in the Arab world".</FONT><BR> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm_Kulthum" target=page>Umm Kulthum (1904-1975), Info</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeoF74Vu180" target=page>Song1:Enta Omri</FONT></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FusV28xVr4&feature=related" target=page>2:Sirat El Hob</FONT></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA9AhXLWsSM&feature=related" target=page>3:Ansak</FONT></a><BR> <font size=2 color=black>Some others: </FONT> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoYXva0Rj2E" target=page>Afaf Radi</FONT></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6PIeUX3gNM&feature=related" target=page>Fairuz (Birth 1935)</FONT></A> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jthl4IwXpE" target=page>Ilham Al Madfai</FONT></A> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxWsGQI6c8Q&feature=related" target=page>Warda (B:1940)</a><BR> <a href="http://www.alaghany.com/Egypt___N_Africa_Singers/" target=page>Click here for more Links to Live Arabic Music (or choose one when in YouTube)</A> </H5> </TD> <td align="left" valign="top" width="550" border=2> <H5> <center><H2>Turkish</H2></center> <FONT size=1 color=black>Müzeyyen Senar is the most powerful living voice of Turkish art music that even Kemal Atatürk listened to with such awe. She is still a revered name in classical Turkish music. I include 4 other names who are equally loved in Turkey. By the way, although they sound very similar, Arabs and Turks both can almost always differentiate between their music, just from the instrumental sound.</FONT><BR> <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/M%C3%BCzeyyen+Senar/+wiki" target=page>Müzeyyen Senar (Birth 1918), Info</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4je3FvL0tY&feature=related" target=page>Song 1</FONT></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdv3C-aie_0&feature=related" target=page>Song 2</FONT></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AL9pqJXwN4&feature=related" target=page>Song 3</FONT></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiBniduO72I&feature=related" target=page>Song 4</FONT></a><BR> <font size=2 color=black>Some others: </FONT> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfJm8SvflkA" target=page>Safiye Ayla<FONT size=1> (1907-98)</FONT></FONT></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1300000/hamiyet_yuceses_legendary_singer/" target=page>Hamiyet Yüceses<FONT size=1> (1914-96)</FONT></FONT></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-x3xtq0BATVM/zeki_mren_beklenen_ark/" target=page>Zeki Müren <FONT size=1>(1931-96)</FONT></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD0nXv5PudQ&feature=related" target=page>Emel Say1n <FONT size=1>(1945)</FONT></a><BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__aOBYlUOXI" target=page>Ajda Pekkan <FONT size=1 color=black> (1946)</FONT></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Eastern_music" target=page>About Middle Eastern Music (or choose one when in YouTube)</A><BR> <CENTER><a href="http://www.turkmuzigi.web.tr/" target=page><FONT color=blue><B>Click this line to search for ALL Turkish Music</B><FONT></a></CENTER> </H5> </TD></TABLE></CENTER> <table align=center border="1" cellpadding="0" width="1100"> <td align="left" valign="top" width="500" border=2> <H4> <center><H2>Belly Dance</H2></center> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFRCqNYXoFU" target=page>Belly Dance Links, 1</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-apmucJXtU&feature=related" target=page>2</FONT></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMp6IwkS9HI&feature=related" target=page>Nightclub, 1</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNHjOMMez48&feature=related" target=page>2</FONT></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR2S8QV9euM" target=page>Darbouka</FONT></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v39k62jovGU&feature=related" target=page>How?</FONT></a> <BR><BR> <FONT size=1 color=black>The links for Belly Dance, on what is the most vibrant component of Mid-East dance, rhythm, beat, and showmanship are quite bad, with a few hidden semi-gems stuck here and there. I will update this part if and when I come across better links.</FONT> </H4> </TD> <td align="left" valign="top" width="550" border=2> <H4> <center><H2>West/Latin & Arab Combo</H2></center> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdkGSH-N-L0" target=page>01-Desert Rose (by Sting)</a><BR> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhfl17jYBuc" target=page>02-Viento del Arena (by Gypsy Kings)</a><BR> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAlTlcXGGe4&feature=related" target=page>03-Ojos Asi (by Shakira & Amr Diab) a favorite of mine!</a><BR> <FONT size=2 color=black>There are a few others, like "Salma Ya Salama," but they don't appeal to me.</FONT> </H4> </TD></TABLE> <CENTER><FONT color=red><b>Note:</b></FONT> Some links on YouTube occasionally expire, but there are other links to the same music by the same singer and song. Search for them! </CENTER> </BODY> </HTML>