Our project is finished... It is a sad news for all. Thanks to our project we have found each other, we have found new friends. We have known more about other cultures....As coordinator of the project I can say that all pedagogical goals were attained. It was a fascinating musical experience and I think that all members of the project will have good memories. All my life I have been interested in music, I have a musical education but I also found out many new things about Asian music and… Continue

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Michel Jean Legrand (born February 24, 1932) is a French-Armenia

musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist.Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores

and several musicals and has made well over a hundred albums. He has

won three Oscars (out of 13 nominations) and five Grammys and has been nominated for an Emmy. He was twenty-two when his first album, I Love Paris,

became one of the best-selling instrumental albums ever… Continue

The music of Indonesia demonstrates its cultural diversity,

nearly every one of the 17,508 islands having its own cultural and

artistic history and character. This results in hundreds of different forms of music, which often

accompanies dance and theater. The musics of Java, Sumatra,

Bali, Flores and

other islands have been documented and recorded, and research by

Indonesian and international scholars is ongoing.… Continue

Dangdut is a genre of Indonesian

popular music that is partly derived from Malay, Arabic

and Hindustani

music. It developed in the 1970s among working

class Muslim

youth, but beginning in the late 1990s reached a broader following in

Indonesia, Malaysia and the southern Philippines.

A dangdut band typically consists of a lead singer, male or female,

backed by four to eight musicians. Instruments usually include a… Continue