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Hello. What are the most well known Kurdish folk songs, and where could I find sheet music for them? I would greatly appreciate any information you could provide.

AdamA wrote:Hello. What are the most well known Kurdish folk songs, and where could I find sheet music for them? I would greatly appreciate any information you could provide.

Hello AdamA

Welcome to Roj bash Kurdistan

Do not give up someone will be able to help you

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Thank you for gracious welcome, Anthea.

AdamA wrote:Thank you for gracious welcome, Anthea.

Some people on here are very shy

The more you post the more people will take notice of you

Piling is the person on here who knows the most about Kurdish Folk Songs - so I suggest you send her a PM

Piling works very hard and probably has not even seen your post

Thank you for the advice. I'll become active in other areas of the forum.

If Piling is hard at work, I rather not trouble her.

There are thousands and thousands of Kurdish folk songs ! From various regions, dialects and occasions…

Celîlê Celîl and before Casimê Celîl collected a great number of them and published them, lyrics and music.

Thank you Piling. This was exactly the information I was hoping for.

Could I just ask you one more question, and then I won't bother you anymore? Where could I purchase one of the music collections by Celile Celil, or Casime Celil?

http://www.kurdologie-wien.at/home/inde ... bliktionen

Celîlê Cemîl lives in Vienna, now, and had founded the Institut for Kurdologie, with his huge library. They sell the whole series of Stran û Awazên Kurdî (lyrics and music)



Of course, you need to learn Deutsch or Kurdish to read their site

Avesta publishing house has also an anthology of songs :

http://www.avestakitap.com/urun.php?id=341

Avesta is a Turkish-Kurdish site, so in both cases, a good way to improve your Kurmancî

Here is one of them from the Library of Institut Kurde de Paris (I am the Librarian) :

Thank you so much Piling, for generously sharing your time and knowledge, with someone you've never met. I'm sure others like myself, who can neither read German, Turkish, or Kurmanji, will stumble upon this thread and appreciate your help equally.

I'll call, and if that fails email, both the Institute for Kurdology and Avesta, and see if I can someone who can speak English, or be willing to translate an English language email.

All the best to you, with your enviable resource of books, at the Institut Kurde de Paris.

Not sure if this is really folk music but it is very good

and very old

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