Tuesday, 3 June 2014

Sudanese Music

 Here are two traditional instruments played in the Sudan: the Sudanese Lyre and the drum, the tar, played by the cross-cultural Otaak band. The tar is demonstrated on this link by Hamza el Din.

 Both these instruments also feature in this traditional song and dance. The scale used here is a pentatonic using the notes F F# Bb C C#.

Many of the Sudanese traditional songs use pentatonic scales. The Db major pentatonic scale is featured on two other examples: a women's wedding song, the popular song Luluwe, and the F# minor pentatonic features in the violin, drum and keyboard accompanied song here.


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