Tanb??r Long-Necked Lutes along the Silk Road and beyond

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements ; The Tanb??r Tradition; General Introduction; Chapter 1: Historical background; Chapter 2: Construction; Chapter 3: Playing technique; Chapter 4: Tanb??r; Chapter 5: Dot??r; Chapter 6: Saz; Chapter 7: Set??r; Chapter 8: D??mbra; Chapter 9: Dambura; Glossary of Musical Instruments; Discography; Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index

About the Author

HANS DE ZEEUW began to take ba??lama lessons and became interested in its long and fascinating history while working at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and studying at the Open University. This led him to decide to break off his studies and focus, for many years, on research into the Turkish ba??lama under the supervision of Dr L.J. Plenckers of the Department of Musicology of the University of Amsterdam and Dr Okan Murat ??zt??rk of the Devlet Konservatuvar?? of the Ba??kent ??niversitesi in Ankara. In 2009 he published De Turkse Langhalsluit of ba??lama (Turkish Long-Necked Lute or Ba??lama) with the support of the Dutch Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. His lecture to the Uluslararas?? M??zik Kongresi in Istanbul in 2006 was published in T??rkiyede M??zik K??lt??r?? in 2011. A short article about the Ottoman tanb??r, The Ottoman Tanb??r: Introducing the Long-Necked Lute of Ottoman Classical Music, followed in 2018 in Expedition, a magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthroplogy. He is planning an in-depth study about the Ottoman tanb??r for the near future.