Turkish Music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_3g9kmn5nc

Title: Neva profit

Composer:  Buhurîzade Mustafa Efendi 

Country of Origin: Turkey

Instrumentation: plucked strings, bowed viol, flute

 Buhurîzade Mustafa Efendi is a huge proponent and contributor to Turkish Classical Music.   In this piece, the viol and flute play in unison or octave, and the pitches are bent and moved as a form of expression while the plucked strings provide rhythmic presence playing both in consonance with the bowed viol and in response to its melody.  The fact that there is no real harmony happening, and that there is frequent pitch bending makes you experience the timbral orchestration of the music to a higher degree.  Every time the performers change their timbre for expression, it feels like a form change in the music.  The rhythmic energy in particular stuck out to me as the driving force behind the expression.  Really cool stuff check it out!