Welcome to my channel! My goal is to showcase musical traditions from all over the globe, regardless of culture, ethnicity and religion. I want this channel to be like a musical world museum, a library of musical traditions from all over the world and all over time. I make three general types of content here: arrangements of historical/world music that respects each culture and time period’s authenticity, original compositions that are more creative but still utilise aspects of world music, and informative videos where I explore certain subjects using academic research and sources.
The fanboys who argue that this stuff is historically accurate are the same people who have serious, heated debates over which superhero is the most powerful, as if they were real. Actual man-children.
This is mind blowing. I studied voice in the western tradition. Being able to sing with microtonality is something that even the most skilled vocalists I know would struggle immensely with due to the way we're trained , but you make it sound so effortless. Seriously, props to you for this composition and performance.
"Persia is the old name." In the West. That's the important detail Persia is the old Western exonym of Iran. Not the ancient name of Iran itself for Iranians. We've always called our land Iran as far back as Antiquity, never Persia. Only foreigners called our land Persia in the past.
Hey, Farya, I'm curious about your opinions on Jordi Savall. He has done a lot of musical renditions of various musical numbers concerning both the Renaissance as well as the Medieval period for our modern countries of France and Spain, as well as others. Would his renditions of some of these songs accurately portray the kinds of musical theory in Europe around those periods? I ask because I was listening to this version of Chevalier Mult Estes Guariz and couldn't help but recount that Jordi Savall's version sounded similar. I ask because I'm mostly curious.
1:10:20 that is so ironic it's almost funny, seeing how 300 was based on what was essentially a letter of propaganda against the persian empire to convince the rulers of the era to do something about them...(strongly paraphrased, ofc) basically we ended up doing the same thing again, despite this time not actually meaning it.
Homa, Farya Faraji In Hispanic America you have an audience that admires your work, including me. I wanted to kindly ask you if you could make a list of Hispanic music; of the Spanish Empire, please. As a suggestion there is a song that is a hymn to the Virgin Mary written in Quechua (Inca language) and created during the time of the Spanish Empire; It is called "Hanacpachap Cussicuinin". Thank you so much
this is a very good video, i should say that first, because i was falling in love with all sorts of new instruments, but also i know this wasnt the point but at 42:03 i actually really like this music and now i would love to see a whole movie soundtrack made this way... i got so excited when he actually made the william wallace scottish music
If those commercially available DNA tests are to be believed, my samples with three different companies show that all of me appears to be made of Cornish and Welsh people that led to me (born in modern day Wales). To think that this may have been in some way what the aforementioned folks might have sounded like is a very cool experience, and I thank you for the work you did to make it -- and your channel in general. Music is a language we all share, everywhere on Earth. :)
It's because people do not care about oriental cultures, especially not present day ones. All people care about is the feeling of mystique. It doesn't have to be real, it just has to be pleasing. Wakanda forever.
What I know about "Frygian, etc" modes in western music is in more recent, i.e. late 20th century recent, western music, specifically metal bands such as Metallica. Use of the flat second is widespread in metal, both for riffs and solos. Also in electronic music as psy-trance (psychedelic trance).
You're great man. Btw how many languages do you speak? I really liked the way you actually indulge in your arguments & give us a clear sense of how things feel. I was born in the US but my whole family is mexican & I've lived the majority of my life here, shit is pretty much the same with the missinterpretation of Latin America as a peegfeed as you say of so called latinx, a term which I hate from the bottom of my soul. You're really fucking smart & an inspiration)
39:20 You had me cracking up there, right before uttering: god, we (westerners) are dumb. The song title first, then the camel coming into view, this is grade A comedy. Funny enough, I actually recognised the duduk from my one exposure to Armenian music, which was a eurovision song from Armenia called 'Apricot Stone', one of the few songs in EV history that actually stuck with me for its evocative lyrics and catchy sound. But it starts off with a duduk first up, so at least that's one sound I won't easily confuse.
42:04 a Spaniard and Italian use a pagan slavic ritual that transports them back in time - they try to save William Wallace from being quartered by Edward the 1st so they can fight Muhammad II of Granada
Interestingly enough, what Farya disproves about Greek music seems to be true for Hungarian folk music: we have old style and new style folk songs and the old style songs are pentatonic.
What you said about Persian and middle eastern mythology at the very end of the video is how I feel about Slavic mythology and fairytales (as that’s what I grew up with). Western European and Celtic mythology has become so popular that any ‘fantasy’ setting automatically incorporates it and there’s so, so much rich mythology from other cultures that we just never see. I love Tolkien but modern fantasy just cannot escape the dwarves/elves/orcs/dragons/hobbits, they just get reshuffled and renamed and recast. I don’t want ‘Slavic elves’ or ‘Slavic Cinderella’ either, I want *our own* mythological creatures and our own fairytales to be portrayed and shown to audiences outside my own culture and language. Even when it’s trying to be diverse (such as POC elves in Tolkien remakes) western media refuses to move outside of that western mythos as if nothing else exists, as if elves and dragons are the only type of ‘fantasy’ out there. It’s a really, really shitty bargain pretending to be diverse when there’s worlds and worlds of myth out there we’re completely ignorant about because western media refuses to think about them. (And imo even the Witcher, an originally Polish series, comes off feeling incredibly Western European to me- while the monsters are different and the hero’s names are different, still a lot of the story feels like it’s made to appeal to a Western European/American audience, and that just gets compounded when it’s turned into video games and a TV series for an English-speaking audience. There’s so much folklore I grew up reading and seeing that would make fantastic Hollywood movies or TV series but none of it is available if you don’t already know it exists and where to look and you don’t already speak the language)
