Oud
Instrumental Music – Oud Concert
Naseer Shamma is an Iraqi Musician and Oud Artist. He was born in Kut, a city on the Tigris River, in 1963. Completed his diploma from the Bagdad Academy of Music in 1987 and has composed music for films, plays and television. He has created a Oud school named “Arabic Oud House” in Cairo, Egypt in 1999. It is the first school completely dedicated to teaching Oud as a solo instrument. Let us watch and listen to the “Cities of Daffodils” by Naseer Shamma and the Peacebuilders, performed at the historic Citadel of Erbil. Artist Line-Up Naseer Shamma – Oud and Composition Karen Briggs aka “The Lady in Red” – Violin Hussein Zahhawy – Kurdish Daf Aytac Dogan – Kanun Ashraf Sharif Khan – Sitar Luis Robisco – Flamenco Guitar A...
Oud
Oud is an Arabic Musical Instrument belonging to the Chordophone family of instruments. It is a short-neck, lute-type, pear-shaped stringed instrument having no frets. Normally an Oud has 11 strings grouped in six courses. There are Ouds with 5 or 7 courses having 10 or 13 strings respectively. It has a Fingerboard and Tuning Pegs. A Lute is a Plucked String Instrument having a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity. Usually Lute instruments have a sound hole on its body. Ouds have been used in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia for many years. There are three main categories of modern-day Ouds – Arabian, Turkish and Persian. The Arabian Ouds are larger than the Turkish and Persian ones. They produce a full, deep sound. The Persian one is also called as Barb...