Music of Azerbaijan

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Mugham () or Mughamat () is one of the many classical compositions from Azerbaijan, contrasting with tasnif and ashik.

overview of music traditions in Azerbaijan

upright=0.75|right|thumb|Garmon player The garmon (, from , cognate of English harmonica), commonly called garmoshka, is a kind of Russian button accordion, a free-reed wind instrument. A garmon has two rows of buttons on the right side, which play the notes of a diatonic scale, and at least two rows of buttons on the left side, which play the primary chords in the key of the instrument as well as its relative harmonic minor key. Many instruments have additional right-hand buttons with useful accidental notes, additional left-hand chords for playing in related keys, and a row of free-bass butt

intangible cultural heritage

1913 Operetta by Uzeyir Hajibeyov

membranophone percussion instrument

Traditional long-necked string instrument

Meykhana () is a distinctive Azerbaijani literary and folk rap tradition, consisting of an unaccompanied song performed by one or more people improvising on a particular subject. Meykhana is variation of the aytysh genre of music, which is distinct from spoken word poetry in that it is performed in time to a beat, and competitive.

Azerbaijani music triad who play traditional tar, kamancheh and daf instruments

The "Jujalarim" (, Cyrillic: Ҹүҹәләрим,  — my little chicks) is an Azerbaijani song composed by for children by Gambar Huseynli and Tofig Mutallibov. It was sung for the first time by Sughra Baghirzada in May 1959 at the Festival of the Decade of Azerbaijani Art in Moscow. Its music was composed by Ganbar Huseinli in 1949 and the lyrics were by Tofig Mutallibov.

Opera by Uzeyir Hajibeyov

Uzundara or ouzoundara (; ) is a lyrical Armenian and Azerbaijani dance traditionally performed by women. Today, the dance is famous throughout the South Caucasus region; in particular Armenia and Azerbaijan.

right|thumb|250px|A traditional Azeri mugham trio with the khananda (left) as the daf-player A khananda ( ; ; alternative spellings in English: khanende, khanande, khanandeh) is a name generally given to singers of mugham, an Azeri folk music genre. The word is of Persian origin and means "singer". When performing traditional mugham, a khananda is accompanied by a trio of musicians who play the tar, the kamancheh and the daf (tambourine). Often the khananda is the daf-player.

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musical percussion instrument

song performed by Khan Shushinski

music genre or scene

thumb|A sazandar orchestra, 1906 A sazanda or sazandar ( / سازنده; ; ; ; alternative spellings in English: sazende, sazandeh) is one of the three musicians in the traditional ensemble of instrumentalists performing along with a singer (khananda, in the case of an Azeri mugham performance) in the South Caucasus. The word means "builder" in Persian. The trio consists of a tarist, a kamanchist and a daf player. Historically the word sazanda(r) was applied to any instrumentalist from Anatolia, the Caucasus or Iran, who played a folk instrument.

Ayrılıq (Azerbaijani: ayrılıq/ تورکجه: آیریلیق. / Ayrılıq, meaning "Separation") is an Azerbaijani folk song with lyrics by Farhad Ebrahimi and music composed by Ali Salimi in 1957. The song is about separation and love and is one of "the most familiar to Azerbaijanis throughout the world".

musical system in traditional mugham music

Takam-Chi (Azerbaijani: تکم چی), or Takam Gardān (meaning, the one who turns around the Takam), is the person who plays the Takam. Both Takam and Takam-Chi are Turkic-Azari words.

opera by Muslim Magomayev

300px|right|thumb|Characteristic trichord of maqam sigah, on E half-flat Segah (Kurdish: سێ گاە; ; ; ) (From Persian se-gāh, سه + گاه = سه‌گاه "third place") is a musical mugham in traditional Kurdish, Persian, Azeri and Turkish traditional music.

musical modal system in traditional mugham music and one of the seven Dastgāhs of Persian Music

opera by Muslim Magomayev

musical modal system in traditional mugham music and one of the seven Dastgāhs of Persian Music

modal system in mugham music

mugham

Azerbaijani rock music

Unpitched percussion instrument