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Kazakh musician to play dotar at Iranian Regional Music Festival
TEHRAN, April 24 (MNA) -- Iranian-based Kazakh musician Mostafa Qazaq will play dotar at the 7th Regional Music Festival running from May 14 to 18 in Tehran and Kerman.
Dotar is mostly played in the traditional ceremonies of the Kazakhs and in earlier times, the elderly played the music while they advice to the youths, Qazaq said in a press release published by the Public Relations Office of the festival on Friday.
“In our culture, some ceremonies are usually performed with music such as the ceremony the bride’s father holds in his house in which we play dotar and sing traditional songs.
“Dotar in Kazakhstan is different with the ones of other regions. Ours is weaker and more fragile but can play all the melodies of western classical music. For example, it can play the same melodies as those played on a violin.
“Our dotar is only made of two strings stretched on an empty wooden bowl. The strings used to be made of sheep’s intestine, but now this has been replaced with nylon,” he added.
Iranian Kazakhs emigrated from their homeland, now a republic in central Asia northeast of the Caspian Sea, to reside in Bandar Torkman, Gonbad-e Kavus, and Gorgan in Golestan Province.
Dotar is mostly played in the traditional ceremonies of the Kazakhs and in earlier times, the elderly played the music while they advice to the youths, Qazaq said in a press release published by the Public Relations Office of the festival on Friday.
“In our culture, some ceremonies are usually performed with music such as the ceremony the bride’s father holds in his house in which we play dotar and sing traditional songs.
“Dotar in Kazakhstan is different with the ones of other regions. Ours is weaker and more fragile but can play all the melodies of western classical music. For example, it can play the same melodies as those played on a violin.
“Our dotar is only made of two strings stretched on an empty wooden bowl. The strings used to be made of sheep’s intestine, but now this has been replaced with nylon,” he added.
Iranian Kazakhs emigrated from their homeland, now a republic in central Asia northeast of the Caspian Sea, to reside in Bandar Torkman, Gonbad-e Kavus, and Gorgan in Golestan Province.
