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Arabesque
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The Independent Weekly
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April 28, 2004
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While listening to the Duke University performance by Simon Shaheen and the Near Eastern Music Ensemble recently, I felt my mind do an arabesque. Like the graceful flow of limbs akimbo that I love in ballet, my mind pulled together fragments of the Arabian music I've heard over the years.
Suddenly the elaborate sequences of notes coalesced around a central structure and I witnessed the beauty of the underlying form. This was not the ever-popular belly dance music that was my first introduction to music from the Middle East. This was as classical as the oriental flavored ballet of Najinsky.
At first my ears were feasting on the exotic flavor of instruments like the oud (lute), ney (flute), ...
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