زكريّا أحمد, part 12
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AMAR Foundation · Arab Music Archiving & Research
A century of Arab music, voice after voice
The singers, composers and instrumentalists of the Nahḍa and the first records, kept, restored and told by AMAR in Qornet el Hamra since 2009.
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1847
Yūsuf al-Manyalāwī
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1852
Ibrāhīm al-Qabbānī
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1852
Salāma Ḥigāzī
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1857
‘Abd al-Ḥayy Ḥilmī
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1870
Dāwūd Ḥusnī
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1875
Sayyid al-Ṣaftī
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1880
Zakī Murād
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1885
Munīra al-Mahdiyya
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1885
Sāmī al-Shawwā
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1888
Sulaymān Abū Dāwūd
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1894
Sheikh Amīn Ḥasanayn Sālim
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1896
Zakariyyā Aḥmad
Six doors into the archive
Every record is tied to all six. A line runs through the doors and holds one record; the door that opens is what links it to the record before. Open any door to go in.
Singers, composers and instrumentalists of the Nahḍa and the first records. By role:
Each with a 30-second preview, and 6,046 recordings more on reel. By medium:
One piece, many voices: the songs and pieces recorded most often.
The forms, maqāmāt and rhythms of the tradition. Recordings by form:
The companies that recorded the music and pressed the discs. Recordings by company:
When the records were made, decade by decade:
On the line
دور في البعد ياماDawr FelBuud Yama
ʿAbd al-Ḥayy Ḥilmī · music by Muḥammad ʿUthmān · Odeon, 1905
The door that opens is what links each record to the one before.
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