Middle Eastern Flute Magic: Play the Nay: Finger Charts for Arabic Music Scales - Softcover

Powers, Cameron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933983248 ISBN 13: 9781933983240

Publisher: G. L. Design, 2019

Synopsis

Learn to play the ancient Middle Eastern reed flute known as the nay. Famous in Sufi poetry for its wailing soulful sound, it is not hard to fall totally in love with this instrument. However, it is not so easy to play. Musicians who are flautists already will also have difficulty as the nay requires its own special method or embouchure to make a sound. The notes generated by the nay form primary scales known in the Middle East and Orient as maqams. This book provides instruction, very rare in the West or in English language, on how to generate the complex haunting sounds and also provides finger charts for numerous traditional music scales popular in the East.

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it's a pleasure to read. Reading the Rumi quotes featuring the nay was a special treat, as was the idea that the seemingly fickle nature of producing its sound is part of why it is considered a spiritual instrument. I hadn't thought of it in those terms before, but it's so true!

Thank you for writing this, it feels like the instrument was in need of a book like this. It includes every aspect of the nay that I can think of or would want to see covered, every single piece of knowledge I've stumbled into on my own, plus many things to learn and new discoveries. -Korey

 

Edition details

• Publisher: G. L. Design
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933983248
• ISBN 13: 9781933983240
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156