Middle Eastern music

The term Middle Eastern music refers to music of the Middle East and the resulting related regions such as North Africa, the Levant and the Persian Gulf states. Oriental music is not confined to the music of the Arabic-speaking countries, Israel, Iran or Turkey. The oriental music also has similar traits to the Greek and Indian music; their influence reaches beyond Central Asia, the Caucasus, from southeast Europe to the chalga of Bulgarian folk music.

The Arabic scale significantly different from the Western. So there on the piano 7 "white " and 5 " black keys ". This octave ( c C ) is divided into 12 intervals ( semitones ). The classical music of Arabia can also be played with 17, 19 or 24 intervals in the octave.

String instruments and the human voice able reproduce it well "between" the intervals of the octave piano pitch tones. This " quarter-tones " are the western musical feeling strange.

To oriental music you count

• Afghan Music
• Arabesque (Music Direction )
• Arabic Music
• Armenian Music
• Azerbaijani music
• Assyrian Music / Aramaic Music
• Egyptian Music
• Ethiopian Music
• Berber music
• Iraqi Music
• Indian Music
• Jordanian music
• Kurdish Music
• Lebanese music
• Persian Music
• Palestinian music
• Raï (North Africa)
• Syrian Music
• Turkish Music
• Central Asian music

• Culture ( Orient )
• Genre of traditional music