The USC Music Library has a large collection of monographs and sound recordings relating to the music of the Middle East. The collection covers both indigenous and popular music. To learn more on the Middle East and its music, click on the Grove link under each country's bibliography. 
1. Afghanistan
Anthology of World Music: The Music of Afghanistan. Rounder Select 82161-5121-2. CD. 2003. Afghanistan: Music from the Crossroads of Asia, performed by members of the Radio Afghanistan Orchestra, recorded in Kabul by Peter Ten Hoopen. Nonesuch Explorer Series H-72053. LP. 1973. Clark, Mitchell. Sounds of the Silk Road: Musical Instruments of Asia. Boston, MA: MFA Publications, 2005. The Music of Afghanistan. 82161-5121-2 Rounder. CD. 2003. Sakata, Hiromi Lorraine. Music in the Mind: The Concepts of Music and Musician in Afghanistan. Kent, OH: The Kent University Press, 1983. The Silk Road: A Musical Caravan. SFW CD 40438 Smithsonian Folkways. CD. 2002. Slobin, Mark. Music in the Culture of Northern Afghanistan. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 1976. Sufi Music. RGNET 1064 CD World Music Network. CD. 2001. Read about the music of Afghanistan at Grove Music Online. Armenian Songs. W9612 Westminster. LP. 1964. Balasanian, Sergei Artem'evich. Armenian Music (Armianskaia Muzyka). S10-06043--S10-06044 Melodiia. LP. [n.d.]. Nercessian, Andy. The Duduk and National Identity in Armenia. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001. Music of the World’s Peoples, vol. 4. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings F-4507. CD. 2001. Armenian music through the ages, performed by Richard Hagopian. Smithsonian Folkways SF 40414. CD. 1993. Komitas. Armenian Sacred and Folk Music. Translated by Edward Gulbekian. England: Curzon Press, 1998. Silk Road. Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40438. CD. 2002. Read about the music of Armenia at Grove Music Online. Music of Azerbaijan. Anthology of World Music. Rounder 82161-5142-2. CD. 2003. Music of the World’s Peoples, vol. 2. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings F-4505. CD. 2001. Musics of the Soviet Union. Smithsonian Folkways SF 40002. CD. 1989. Silk Road. Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40438. CD. 2002. Read about the music of Azerbaijan at Grove Music Online. Fanshawe, David. Salaams and the Pearl Divers of Bahrain. Philips Stereo 6558 003. LP. 1977. Read about the music of Bahrain at Grove Music Online. Folk Music of Cyprus: Traditional Songs and Dances of the Greek, Turkish, and Maronite Communities. LLST 7329 Lyrichord. LP. 197-. Read about the music of Cyprus at Grove Music Online. Georgian Voices, performed by the Rustavi Choir. Elektra Nonesuch Explorer Series 79224-2. CD. 1989. Music of the World’s Peoples, vol. 1. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings F-4504. CD. 2001. Musics of the Soviet Union. Smithsonian Folkways SF 40002. CD. 1989. Read about the music of Georgia at Grove Music Online. Anthology of Persian Music: 1930-1990. Mage Publishers CD 22-1. CD. 1991. Clark, Mitchell. Sounds of the Silk Road: Musical Instruments of Asia. Boston, MA: MFA Publications, 2005. Classical Music of Iran: The Dastgah Systems, compiled, edited, and annotated by Ella Zonis Mahler. Smithsonian Folkways 40039. CD. 1991. During, Jean, and Zia Mirabdolbaghi, including a lesson from Dariush Safvat. The Art of Persian Music. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 1991. Farhat, Hormoz. The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Iran. RGNET1165CD World Music Network. CD. 2005. Massoudieh, Mohammad Taghi. Manuscrits Persans Concernant la Musique. Répertoire International des Sources Musicales. München: G. Henle Verlag, 1996. Music of the World’s Peoples, vol. 2. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings F-4505. CD. 2001. National Anthems of the World, performed by the Band of the Grenadier Guards, conducted by Major F. J. Harris, MBE. London Records PS 120. LP. 1959. Nettl, Bruno, ed. Eight Urban Musical Cultures: Tradition and Change. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1978. Nettl, Bruno, and Bela Foltin, Jr. Daramad of Chahargah: A Study in the Performance Practice of Persian Music. Detroit, MI: Information Coordinators, Inc., 1972. Persian Santur: Music of Iran, performed Nasser Rastegar-Nejad, Fariba, Manuchehr Hashemi, and Ali-Asghar Mirzadeh. Nonesuch Explorer Series H-72039. LP. [n.d.]. Silk Road. Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40438. CD. 2002. World Music Sampler, vol. 2. Nimbus Records 7014. CD. 1994. Wright, O. The Modal System of Arab and Persian Music, A.D. 1250-1300. London, England: Oxford University Press, 1978. Read about the music of Iran at Grove Music Online. Afif Bulos Sings Songs of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings F-8816. CD. 1961. Read about the music of Iraq at Grove Music Online. Adler, Israel. Hebrew Notated Manuscript Sources up to Circa 1840: A Descriptive and Thematic Catalogue with a Checklist of Printed Sources, vols. 1 and 2. Répertoire International des Sources Musicales. München: G. Henle Verlag, 1989. Adler, Israel. Hebrew Writing Concerning Music: In Manuscripts and Printed Books from Geonic Times up to 1800. Répertoire International des Sources Musicales. München: G. Henle Verlag, 1975. Armistead, Samuel, and Joseph Silverman. Tres Calas en el Romancero Sefardí (Rodas, Jerusalén, Estados Unidos). Spain: Editorial Castalia, 1979. Bohlman, Philip Vilas. The Land Where Two Streams Flow: Music in the German-Jewish Community of Israel.Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Braun, Joachim. Music in Ancient Israel. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2002. Burgh, Theodore W. Listening to the Artifacts: Music Culture in Ancient Palestine. New York, NY: T & T Clark International, 2006. Fleisher, Robert. Twenty Israeli Composers: Voices of a Culture. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1997. Folk Music of Palestine: Hebrew, Yemenite, Persian, Arabic, Bokharian. F-4408 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, FE-4408 Folkways. CD. 1995. Gradenwitz, Peter. Music and Musicians in Israel. Jerusalem: The Youth and Hechalutz Department of the Zionist Organization, 1952. _________. The Music of Israel: From the Biblical Era to Modern Times. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1996. _________. The Music of Israel: Its Rise and Growth through 5000 Years. New York, NY: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1949. Hassidic Tunes of Dancing & Rejoicing. Ethnic Folkways Records FE 4209. LP. 1978. Israel. RGNET1168CD World Music Network. CD. 2006. Katz, Israel J. Judeo-Spanish Traditional Ballads from Jerusalem: An Ethnomusicological Study. Brooklyn, NY: The Institute of Medieval Music, Ltd., 1972. Morasha: Traditional Jewish Musical Heritage, recorded by Dr. Amnon Shiloah. Ethnic Folkways Records FE 4203. LP. 1978. Music of the World’s Peoples, vol. 2. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings F-4505. CD. 2001. National Anthems of the World, performed by the Band of the Grenadier Guards, conducted by Major F. J. Harris, MBE. London Records PS 120. LP. 1959. Netzer, Effi. The Most Popular Folk Songs from Israel. EUCD 1498 ARC Music. CD. 1999. Regev, Motti, and Edwin Seroussi. Popular Music and National Culture in Israel. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. Sharvit, Uri. “The Role of Music in the Jewish Yemenite Ritual: A Study of Ethnic Persistence.” Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1982. Read about the music of Israel at Grove Music Online. Aiff Bulos Sings Songs of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. F-8816 Folkways. CD. 1999. Read about the music of Jordon at Grove Music Online. Beliaev, Viktor M. Central Asian Music: Essays in the History of the Music of the Peoples of the U.S.S.R. Edited by Mark Slobin ; translataed by Mark and Greta Slobin. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1975. Central Asia. RGNET1129CD World Music Network. CD. 2005. Silk Road. Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40438. CD. 2002. Read about the music of Kazakhstan at Grove Music Online. Read about the music of Kuwait at Grove Music Online. Beliaev, Viktor M. Central Asian Music: Essays in the History of the Music of the Peoples of the U.S.S.R. Edited by Mark Slobin ; translated by Mark and Greta Slobin. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1975. Central Asia. RGNET1129CD World Music Network. CD. 2005. Silk Road. Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40438. CD. 2002. Read about the music of Kyrgyzstan at Grove Music Online. Afif Bulos Sings Songs of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings F-8816. CD. 1961. Arabic songs of Lebanon and Egypt, performed by the George Sawaya Trio and female chorus. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings F-6925. CD. 1956. Music of the World’s Peoples, vol. 5. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings F-4508. CD. 2001. Read about the music of Lebanon at Grove Music Online. Read about the music of Oman at Grove Music Online. Qureshi, Regula. Sufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context and Meaning in Qawwali. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006 and 1995. Rough Guide to the Music of India and Pakistan. RGNET 1008. CD. 1996. Songs and Sounds of Faraway Places. Philips Mono PCC 201. LP. 1963. Sufi Music. RGNET 1064 CD World Music Network. CD. 2001. Read about the music of Pakistan at Grove Music Online. Read about the music of Qatar at Grove Music Online. Music of the World’s Peoples, vol. 1. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings F-4504. CD. 2001. National Anthems of the World, performed by the Band of the Grenadier Guards, conducted by Major F. J. Harris, MBE. London Records PS 120. LP. 1959. Read about the music of Saudi Arabia at Grove Music Online. Let Jasmine Rain Down, University of Chicago Press 1998. (This recording accompanies ML 3776 .S53). Music of the World’s Peoples, vol. 5. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings F-4508. CD. 2001. Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. Read about the music of Syria at Grove Music Online. Beliaev, Viktor M. Central Asian Music: Essays in the History of the Music of the Peoples of the U.S.S.R. Edited by Mark Slobin ; translated by Mark and Greta Slobin. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1975. Central Asia. RGNET1129CD World Music Network. CD. 2005. Silk Road. Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40438. CD. 2002. Read about the music of Tajikistan at Grove Music Online. Bartok, Bela. Turkish Folk Music From Asia Minor. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976. Farhangi, Farzad. Sandstorm. Columbia, SC: MIPA Studios, 2003. Music of the World’s Peoples, vol. 3. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings F-4506. CD. 2001. National Anthems of the World, performed by the Band of the Grenadier Guards, conducted by Major F. J. Harris, MBE. London Records PS 120. LP. 1959. Rough Guide to the Music of Turkey. RGNET 1057. CD. 2003. Saygun, A. Adnan. Béla Bartók’s Folk Music Research in Turkey. Edited by László Vikár. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1976. Signell, Karl L. Makam: Modal Practice in Turkish Art Music. New York, NY: Da Capo Press, Inc., 1977. Reprint. Seattle, WA: Asian Music Pub., 1977. Songs and Dances of Turkey. Recorded by Laura Boulton. Folkways Records FP 80-1. LP. 1955. Songs and Sounds of Faraway Places. Philips Mono PCC 201. LP. 1963. Turkey: Traditional Songs and Music. Collected and edited by Wolf Dietrich. Lyrichord LLST 7356. LP. 1977. Turku. Özlem. HSCD-1103 Hittite Sun Records. CD. 2004. Turquie: Musique Soufi. Radio France 558522. LP. 1976. Read about the music of Turkey at Grove Music Online. Beliaev, Viktor M. Central Asian Music: Essays in the History of the Music of the Peoples of the U.S.S.R. Edited by Mark Slobin ; translated by Mark and Greta Slobin. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1975. Central Asia. RGNET1129CD World Music Network. CD. 2005. Silk Road. Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40438. CD. 2002. Sufi Music. RGNET 1064 CD World Music Network. CD. 2001. Read about the music of Turkmenistan at Grove Music Online. Read about the music of United Arab Emirates at Grove Music Online. Beliaev, Viktor M. Central Asian Music: Essays in the History of the Music of the Peoples of the U.S.S.R. Edited by Mark Slobin ; translated by Mark and Greta Slobin. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1975. Central Asia. RGNET1129CD World Music Network. CD. 2005. Silk Road. Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40438. CD. 2002. Read about the music of Uzbekistan at Grove Music Online. Afro-Arabian Crossroad: Music of the Tihama on the Red Sea, North Yemen. Recorded by Anderson Bakewell. Lyrichord LLST 7384. LP. 1983. Folk Music of Palestine: Hebrew, Yemenite, Persian, Arabic, Bokharian. F-4408 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, FE-4408 Folkways. CD. 1995. Sharvit, Uri. The Role of Music in the Jewish Yemenite Ritual: A Study of Ethnic Persistence. PhD Diss., Columbia University, 1982. Read about the music of Yemen at Grove Music Online. |
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