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Qanun (instrument)

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The qanun, kanun, ganoun or kanoon (qānūn; k’anon; qānūn; kanonáki, qanun; قانون, qānūn; kanun; qanun) is a Middle Eastern string instrument played either solo, or more often as part of an ensemble, in much of Iran, Arab East, and Arab Maghreb region of North Africa, later it reached West Africa, Central Asia due to Arab migration. [1]

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  1. 64 relations: Ancient Armenia, Ancient Greece, Ara Topouzian, Arabic maqam, Arabic music, Aytaç Doğan, Çeng, Đàn tranh, Box zither, Cent (music), Central Asia, Classical kemençe, Comma (music), Course (music), Dastgāh, Diatonic scale, Electronic tuner, Equal temperament, Eurocentrism, Gayageum, Guzheng, Harmonic series (mathematics), Ivory, Jadagan, Jetigen, Just intonation, Kacapi, Kanklės, Kantele, Kokle, Koto (instrument), Limit (music), Luthier, Maghreb, Mesopotamia, Modulation (music), Ney, Nimrud, North Africa, Nylon, Octave, Old Assyrian period, Ottoman music, Oud, Petros Tabouris, Polyvinyl fluoride, Psaltery, Pythagorean tuning, Quarter tone, Rauf Yekta, ... Expand index (14 more) »

  2. Albanian musical instruments
  3. Ancient Egyptian musical instruments
  4. Ancient Greek musical instruments
  5. Arabic musical instruments
  6. Armenian musical instruments
  7. Azerbaijani musical instruments
  8. Bulgarian musical instruments
  9. Greek musical instruments
  10. Instruments of Turkish makam music
  11. Lebanese musical instruments
  12. Persian musical instruments
  13. Syrian musical instruments
  14. Turkish musical instruments
  15. Turkmen musical instruments
  16. Uzbekistani musical instruments

Ancient Armenia

Ancient Armenia refers to the history of Armenia during Antiquity.

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Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.

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Ara Topouzian

Ara Topouzian (born in 1969) is an Armenian musician who began playing Armenian and Middle Eastern music in 1991.

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Arabic maqam

In traditional Arabic music, maqam (maqām, literally "ascent"; مقامات) is the system of melodic modes, which is mainly melodic.

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Arabic music

Arabic music (al-mūsīqā al-ʿarabīyyah) is the music of the Arab world with all its diverse music styles and genres.

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Aytaç Doğan

Aytaç Doğan (born January 6, 1976, in Bursa) is a Turkish kanun player.

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Çeng

The çeng is a Turkish harp. Qanun (instrument) and Çeng are Azerbaijani musical instruments, instruments of Turkish makam music and Turkish musical instruments.

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Đàn tranh

The đàn tranh or đàn thập lụcLe, Tuan Hung.

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Box zither

The box zither is a class of stringed instrument in the form of a trapezoid-shaped or rectangular, hollow box.

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Cent (music)

The cent is a logarithmic unit of measure used for musical intervals.

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Central Asia

Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.

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Classical kemençe

The classical kemenche (Klasik kemençe), Armudî kemençe ('pear-shaped kemenche') or Politiki lyra (πολίτικη λύρα, 'Constantinopolitan lyre') is a pear-shaped bowed instrument that derived from the medieval Greek Byzantine lyre. Qanun (instrument) and classical kemençe are Greek musical instruments, instruments of Turkish makam music and Turkish musical instruments.

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Comma (music)

In music theory, a comma is a very small interval, the difference resulting from tuning one note two different ways.

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Course (music)

A course, on a stringed musical instrument, is either one string or two or more adjacent strings that are closely spaced relative to the other strings, and typically played as a single string.

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Dastgāh

Dastgāh (دستگاه) is the standard musical system in Persian art music, standardised in the 19th century following the transition of Persian music from the Maqam modal system.

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Diatonic scale

In music theory, a diatonic scale is any heptatonic scale that includes five whole steps (whole tones) and two half steps (semitones) in each octave, in which the two half steps are separated from each other by either two or three whole steps, depending on their position in the scale.

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Electronic tuner

In music, an electronic tuner is a device that detects and displays the pitch of musical notes played on a musical instrument.

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Equal temperament

An equal temperament is a musical temperament or tuning system that approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into steps such that the ratio of the frequencies of any adjacent pair of notes is the same.

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Eurocentrism

Eurocentrism (also Eurocentricity or Western-centrism) refers to viewing the West as the center of world events or superior to all other cultures.

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Gayageum

The gayageum or kayagum is a traditional Korean musical instrument.

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Guzheng

The zheng or guzheng, is a Chinese plucked zither.

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Harmonic series (mathematics)

In mathematics, the harmonic series is the infinite series formed by summing all positive unit fractions: \sum_^\infty\frac.

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Ivory

Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally from elephants) and teeth of animals, that consists mainly of dentine, one of the physical structures of teeth and tusks.

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Jadagan

The jadagan (Khakas: чадыған, chadyghan, Russian: чатхан, chatkhan, or Siberian harp) is a wooden board zither of the Khakas people in Siberia.

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Jetigen

The jetigen (жетіген,, or dzhetigan or zhetygen) is a Kazakh plucked zither.

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Just intonation

In music, just intonation or pure intonation is the tuning of musical intervals as whole number ratios (such as 3:2 or 4:3) of frequencies.

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Kacapi

The kacapi is a traditional zither of Sundanese people in Indonesia.

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Kanklės

The kanklės is a Lithuanian plucked string instrument (chordophone) belonging to the Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery, along with the Latvian kokles, Estonian kannel, Finnish kantele, and Russian gusli.

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Kantele

A kantele or kannel is a traditional Finnish and Karelian plucked string instrument (chordophone) belonging to the south east Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery along with Estonian kannel, Latvian kokles, Lithuanian kanklės and Russian gusli.

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Kokle

Kokle (kūkle) or historically kokles (kūkles) is a Latvian plucked string instrument (chordophone) belonging to the Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery along with Lithuanian kanklės, Estonian kannel, Finnish kantele, and Russian krylovidnye gusli.

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Koto (instrument)

The is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument, and the national instrument of Japan.

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Limit (music)

In music theory, limits or harmonic limits are a way of characterizing the harmony found in a piece or genre of music, or the harmonies that can be made using a particular scale.

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Luthier

A luthier is a craftsperson who builds or repairs string instruments.

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Maghreb

The Maghreb (lit), also known as the Arab Maghreb (اَلْمَغْرِبُ الْعَرَبِيُّ) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of the Arab world.

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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.

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Modulation (music)

In music, modulation is the change from one tonality (tonic, or tonal center) to another.

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Ney

The ney (Ney/نی), is an end-blown flute that figures prominently in Egyptian Music, Persian music, Turkish music, Jewish music and Arabic music. Qanun (instrument) and ney are ancient Egyptian musical instruments, Arabic musical instruments, Persian musical instruments and Turkish musical instruments.

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Nimrud

Nimrud (ܢܢܡܪܕ النمرود) is an ancient Assyrian city (original Assyrian name Kalḫu, biblical name Calah) located in Iraq, south of the city of Mosul, and south of the village of Selamiyah (السلامية), in the Nineveh Plains in Upper Mesopotamia.

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North Africa

North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.

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Nylon

Nylon is a family of synthetic polymers with amide backbones, usually linking aliphatic or semi-aromatic groups.

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Octave

In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the '''diapason''') is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other.

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Old Assyrian period

The Old Assyrian period was the second stage of Assyrian history, covering the history of the city of Assur from its rise as an independent city-state under Ushpia 2080 BC, and consolidated under Puzur-Ashur I 2025 BC to the foundation of a larger Assyrian territorial state and empire after the accession of Ashur-uballit I 1363 BC, which marks the beginning of the succeeding Middle Assyrian period.

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Ottoman music

Ottoman music (Osmanlı müziği) or Turkish classical music (Klasik Türk musıkîsi, or more recently label) is the tradition of classical music originating in the Ottoman Empire.

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Oud

The oud (translit) is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have five or seven courses, with 10 or 13 strings respectively. Qanun (instrument) and oud are Arabic musical instruments, Armenian musical instruments, Azerbaijani musical instruments, Early musical instruments, instruments of Turkish makam music, Persian musical instruments and Turkish musical instruments.

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Petros Tabouris

Petros Tabouris (Πέτρος Ταμπούρης) is a renowned Greek musician, composer, and musicologist, known for his contributions to the preservation and interpretation of ancient and traditional Greek music.

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Polyvinyl fluoride

Polyvinyl fluoride (PVF) or –(CH2CHF)n– is a polymer material mainly used in the flammability-lowering coatings of airplane interiors and photovoltaic module backsheets.

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Psaltery

A psaltery (ψαλτήρι) (or sawtry, an archaic form) is a fretboard-less box zither (a simple chordophone) and is considered the archetype of the zither and dulcimer. Qanun (instrument) and psaltery are ancient Greek musical instruments and Greek musical instruments.

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Pythagorean tuning

Pythagorean tuning is a system of musical tuning in which the frequency ratios of all intervals are based on the ratio 3:2.

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Quarter tone

A quarter tone is a pitch halfway between the usual notes of a chromatic scale or an interval about half as wide (orally, or logarithmically) as a semitone, which itself is half a whole tone.

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Rauf Yekta

Rauf Yekta Bey (27 March 1871 – 8 January 1935) was a Turkish musician, musicologist and writer on music.

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Santur

The santur (also santūr, santour, santoor) (سنتور), is a hammered dulcimer of Iranian origins. Qanun (instrument) and santur are Arabic musical instruments and Azerbaijani musical instruments.

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Se (instrument)

The se or guse is an ancient plucked zither of Chinese origin.

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Semitone

A semitone, also called a minor second, half step, or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically.

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Sound board (music)

A soundboard (occasionally called a sounding board) is the surface of a string instrument that the strings vibrate against, usually via some sort of bridge.

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Sound hole

A sound hole is an opening in the body of a stringed musical instrument, usually the upper sound board.

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String instrument

In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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Tonality

Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and/or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions, and directionality.

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Tortoise

Tortoises are reptiles of the family Testudinidae of the order Testudines (Latin for "tortoise").

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Turkish makam

The Turkish makam (Turkish: makam pl. makamlar; from the Arabic word مقام) is a system of melody types used in Turkish classical music and Turkish folk music.

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Turkish tambur

The tambur is a fretted string instrument of Turkey and the former lands of the Ottoman Empire. Qanun (instrument) and Turkish tambur are instruments of Turkish makam music and Turkish musical instruments.

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West Africa

West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.

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Yatga

The yatga (ᠶᠠᠲᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ|yatug-a, Khalkha dialect: label;; is a traditional plucked zither of Mongolia. Yatga may vary widely in size, tuning, and number of bridges and strings; The body is a long wooden box, one end of which is angled downward. The performer plucks the strings with the fingernails of the right hand; the left hand is used to put pressure on the strings, varying the note.

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Zither

Zithers (from the Greek word cithara) are a class of stringed instruments.

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72 equal temperament

In music, 72 equal temperament, called twelfth-tone, 72-TET, 72-EDO, or 72-ET, is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into twelfth-tones, or in other words 72 equal steps (equal frequency ratios).

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See also

Albanian musical instruments

Ancient Egyptian musical instruments

Ancient Greek musical instruments

Arabic musical instruments

Armenian musical instruments

Azerbaijani musical instruments

Bulgarian musical instruments

Greek musical instruments

Instruments of Turkish makam music

Lebanese musical instruments

Persian musical instruments

Syrian musical instruments

Turkish musical instruments

Turkmen musical instruments

Uzbekistani musical instruments

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanun_(instrument)

Also known as Kanonaki, Kanun (Instrument), Qanoon, Qanoûn, Qawanin, Qawānīn.

, Santur, Se (instrument), Semitone, Sound board (music), Sound hole, String instrument, Tonality, Tortoise, Turkish makam, Turkish tambur, West Africa, Yatga, Zither, 72 equal temperament.