{"id":2277,"date":"2010-12-24T11:55:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T09:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2010-12-24T11:55:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T09:55:07","slug":"google-holiday-logo-the-arabian-lute-oud-mahmoud-turkmani-mohamed-abozekry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=2277","title":{"rendered":"Google Holiday Logo &#8211; The Arabian Lute Oud &#8211; Mahmoud Turkmani &#8211; Mohamed Abozekry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has included the search for the <strong>oud <\/strong>&#8211; the Arabian lute &#8211; to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/logos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Holiday Logo<\/a> for Christmas\u00a0 2010.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great that google has added this search for an inmportan plucked instrument that is played all over the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia about the oud:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <strong>oud<\/strong> (Arabic: \u0639\u0648\u062f\u200e  <em>\u02bf\u016bd<\/em>, plural:\u0623\u0639\u0648\u0627\u062f, <em>a\u2018w\u0101d<\/em>; Assyrian:\u0725\u0718\u0715 <em>\u016bd<\/em>, Persian: \u0628\u0631\u0628\u0637 <em>barbat<\/em>;  Turkish: <em>ud<\/em> or <em>ut<\/em>;<sup id=\"cite_ref-0\">[1]<\/sup> Greek: \u03bf\u03cd\u03c4\u03b9; Armenian: \u0578\u0582\u0564, Azeri: <em>ud<\/em>; Hebrew: \u05e2\u05d5\u05d3 <em>ud<\/em>\u200e;  Somali: <em>cuud<\/em> or <em>kaban<\/em>) is a pear-shaped stringed instrument commonly used in North  Africa (Chaabi, Andalusian, &#8230;) and Middle Eastern music. The modern oud and the European  lute both  descend from a common ancestor via diverging evolutionary paths. The oud  is readily distinguished by its lack of frets and  smaller neck.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those are the special features of the oud (shortened from Wikipedia):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lack of frets<\/strong>: The oud, unlike many  other plucked stringed instruments, does not have a fretted neck. This  allows the player to be more expressive by using slides and vibrato.  It also makes it possible to play the microtones of the Arabic Maqam System.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Strings<\/strong>: With some exceptions, the modern oud has eleven  strings. Ten of these strings are paired together in courses of two. The eleventh, lowest string remains single.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pegbox<\/strong>:  The pegbox of the oud is bent back at a 45-90\u00b0 angle from the neck of  the instrument. This provides the necessary tension that prevents the  pegs from slipping. The tension of the strings helps to hold what would  otherwise be a weak joint together. The design is elegant and evolved  before the design was written down. The nut is held in place by the  string tension, rather than being glued.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Body<\/strong>: The oud&#8217;s body has a staved, bowl-like back resembling  the outside of half a watermelon, unlike the flat back of a guitar.  This bowl allows the oud to resonate and have a particular tone quality. The  shape is structurally very strong and stable enabling it to be very  thin.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sound-holes<\/strong>: The oud generally has one to three sound-holes,  which may be either oval or circular, and often are decorated with a  carved bone or wooden rosette.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can find detailed information about the oud in the Atlas of Plucked Instruments: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com\/middle_east.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com\/middle_east.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Google Holiday Logo Christmas 2010 with the Oud<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 386px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.de\/#q=Oud&amp;ct=holiday10-hp&amp;oi=ddle&amp;hl=de&amp;fp=3cadb483bc8f8289\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Google Holiday Logo 2010 Oud\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.de\/weblogbilder2010\/google_oud.jpg\" alt=\"Google Holiday Logo 2010 Oud\" width=\"386\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Holiday Logo 2010 Oud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With this search you can find many interesting pages about the oud: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.de\/#q=Oud&amp;ct=holiday10-hp&amp;oi=ddle&amp;hl=de&amp;fp=3cadb483bc8f8289\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.google.de\/#q=Oud&amp;ct=holiday10-hp&amp;oi=ddle&amp;hl=de&amp;fp=3cadb483bc8f8289<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some time ago I have found the interesting homepage of Mahmoud Turkmeni, an oud player, guitarist and composer who lives in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<h2>Mahmoud Turkmani &#8211; Oud Player, Guitarist, Composer<\/h2>\n<p>As a composer <strong>Mahmoud Turkmani<\/strong> has added new elements to the traditional playing style of the oud. He uses the oud in his compositions which are enriched by multimedia elements as can be seen in the second video of a performance of his composition <strong>Ya Sharr Mout.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biography (shortened from Mahmoud Turkmani homepage)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The innovative guitarist, composer an oud player Mahmoud Turkmani is  considered as a renovator and bridge-builder between contemporary  Western-classical and Arabic-traditional music. Mahmoud Turkmani who was  born in 1964 in Northern Lebanon studied from 1984 to 1989 classical  guitar and composition at the Moscow Academy for Music. After his  graduation he continued his studies at Oscar Ghiglia (1989\/90,  Conservatory of Basle, Switzerland), Juan Carmona (1991\/92, Flamenco  Programme, Andalucia) und Stephan Schmidt (1994-97, Conservatory of  Berne, Switzerland). Stephan Schmidt encouraged him to develop his own  musical language. It took Mahmoud Turkmani several years to devise his  own musical world which, based on his own multicultural background,  found its unique form and expressiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1994 Mahmoud Turkmani has composed works  for well-known artists and ensembles such as Keyvan Chemirani, Barry  Guy, Patricia Kopatchinskaya, Conrad Steinmann, Matthias Ziegler, the  Trio Aspekte, the Erato String Quartet, the Eos Guitar Quartet, the  Berne Symphony Orchestra and the Cairo Symphony Orchestra. In the  multimedial project \u201cYa Sharr Mout\u201d Mahmoud Turkmani experiments with  video, word and sound. Currently, he is working on a composition about  the book \u201cLiliths Return\u201d by the Lebanese writer Joumana Haddad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a solo piece by Mahmoud Turkmani in which you can see the oud and the playing technique very well:<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"watch-headline-title\">Mahmoud Turkmani-   Soudfa   \/   \u0635\u062f\u0641\u0629<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mahmoud Turkmani-   Soudfa  \/   \u0635\u062f\u0641\u0629\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QllsLOfHW-Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2 id=\"watch-headline-title\">Ya Sharr Mout &#8211; Live in Beirut<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ya Sharr Mout&#8221; is an audio-visual performance by composer and musician  Mahmoud Turkmani (<a title=\"http:\/\/www.mahmoudturkmani.com\" dir=\"ltr\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mahmoudturkmani.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mahmoudturkmani.com<\/a> ) and VJ Rhaps (Michael Spahr, <a title=\"http:\/\/rhaps.com\" dir=\"ltr\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/rhaps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/rhaps.com<\/a> ) with texts by Nadia  Tu\u00e9ni. This film shows parts of the opening concert in Beirut, Lebanon,  in October 2007. (Footage by www.dschointventschr.ch)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ya Sharr Mout - Live in Beirut\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pgV5CN9QlKk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>Mohamed Abozekry<\/h2>\n<p>Another interesting player of the <strong>oud <\/strong>is the young <strong>Mohamed Abozekry<\/strong>. He  is listed in the Guinnes Book of Records as the youngest professor for the  oud!<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/sosmusicfestival.com\/?q=Mohamed_Abozekry\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/sosmusicfestival.com\/?q=Mohamed_Abozekry<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oudiste talented and precocious, Mohamed Abozekry begins in 2004  followed the teachings of famous Iraqi musician Naseer Shamma in the  Beit el Oud (Arabic Lute House) in Cairo. In 2007, he obtained the  diploma of soloist and Professor with the Award of Excellence. Then aged  15 years, he became the <strong>youngest professor of the Arab oud<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"watch-headline-title\">mohamed abozekry  (moga): wave<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"mohamed abozekry  (moga): wave\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jJRBTJkEBXs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>More Information<\/h2>\n<p>Homepage <strong>Mahmoud Turkmani<\/strong> with information and\u00a0 many videos: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahmoudturkmani.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mahmoudturkmani.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>youtube channel of <strong>Mahmoud Turkmani<\/strong> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mturkmani\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mturkmani<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Link collection about the <strong>oud<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/pinboard.in\/u:mandoisland\/t:oud\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pinboard.in\/u:mandoisland\/t:oud\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find more youtube videos of <strong>Mohammed Abozekry<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Mohammed+Abozekry&amp;aq=f\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Mohammed+Abozekry&amp;aq=f<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has included the search for the oud &#8211; the Arabian lute &#8211; to the Holiday Logo for Christmas\u00a0 2010. It&#8217;s great that google has added this search for an inmportan plucked instrument that is played all over the Middle East. Wikipedia about the oud: The oud (Arabic: \u0639\u0648\u062f\u200e \u02bf\u016bd, plural:\u0623\u0639\u0648\u0627\u062f, a\u2018w\u0101d; Assyrian:\u0725\u0718\u0715 \u016bd, Persian: 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