Oud award
我现在看新闻不多，我更喜欢在音乐中认识一个民族，认识一个人，因为音乐说谎的时候不多， 好像世人只知道的巴格达只有石油，供他们汽车跑得快，大家可别忘了巴格达还有人，有人的地方就有情感，有情感就会有心声- 音乐之声， 我很高兴能听到来自巴格达的音乐之声
Samai Baghdad-سماعي بغداد -Maqam Kurd
Ahmed Mukhtar - Source: The Road to Baghdad
This piece tells about ancient Baghdad duting the Ottman period(1299-1923 AD), the time of the classical form and music. The composition is based on Maqam Kurd (D,Eb,F,G,A ,Bb ,C ,D) and there are many modulation to other maqams. The rhythm Sama'ai thaqil (10/8) is very old and comes from the Abbasid period ( 750-1258 AD). It actually represents one of the very important periods in the history of Baghdad. Usually the introduction- four bars in 10/8 rhythm - should be composed, but in this instance Mukhtarleft the player to improvise these four bars, to allow him to be part of the composition. it iscustomary that every movement should contain one maqam, but in this piece two maqam are played in every movement. The composer created a special rhythm for the fourth movement and called it ''Mukhtar rhythm''
Music conmopse by Mukhtar builed on Maqam Hijaz, other cromatice notes.
Concert in Spain
Ahmed Mukhtar Arabic ,أحمد مختار (born 1967) is an Iraqi musician who is internationally renowned for his playing of the oud. He was born in Baghdad and is a graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad.
Ahmed was born in 1967 in Baghdad, Iraq and has played the oud and Arabic percussion since 1979. He worked with many folk music groups and musicians in Baghdad. He studied Oud and percussion with the masters Ganim Hadad and Jameel Jerjis and graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad. Ahmed worked with Arabic orchestras and performed on TV with several Iraqi groups. He went on to study Oud and western percussion at the high institute of music in Damascus. Later he studied at the London College of Music. At School of Oriental and African Studies - University of London, he earned a Master of music in performance, also Middle Eastern and Arabic music. Teaching Oud, percussion and Arabic music theory in many places in London such as SOAS-London University. From 1990 he became a performer and teacher and toured throughout the Middle East and Europe.
Mukhtar has written music for plays and documentaries for Arabic TV stations, such as MBC, ART, Mustakela and BB5, he also has composed music for a new Iraqi-European version of Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat (A Soldier's Tale) that produced at The Old Vic at the end of January 2006. He released two CDs, in 1996 and 1999, both of which contain traditional music and original work. ARC music Company realized two CDs (rhythm of Baghdad-2003) and (Road to Baghdad-2005) for Mukhtar composition. Musicians Union in Britain at 1999 had awarded Ahmed an award of best non-western musical compositions.
The UN chose Ahmed and sixteen other musicians from all over the world to release a CD for the benefit of the victims of terrorism and wars. Human Rights Association adopted this. Today, he presents his own education musical program (Speech of the Oud) on the Almustaklah TV channel, which broadcasts from London. He also teaches Arabic music theory and percussion in London colleges.
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