Oud
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
The oud (Template:Lang-ar) is a short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification of instruments) with 11 or 13 strings grouped in 5 or 6 courses, commonly used in Egyptian, Syrian, Sudanese, Palestinian, Lebanese, Iraqi, Kurdish, ArabianYemeni, Arabian, Jewish, Persian, Greek, Armenian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, North African (Chaabi, Classical, and Spanish Andalusian), Somali, and various other forms of Middle Eastern and North African music.
[edit]
See also
- Arabic music
- Armenian music
- Byzantine music
- Hebrew music
- Middle Eastern and North African music traditions
- Somali music
- Turkish music
- Zaidoon Treeko
- Jacobus Oud
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Oud" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
