Cameron and Kristina, pursuing their own brand of diplomacy as "Musical Ambassadors", were on the streets of Baghdad singing popular Iraqi music with Iraqi citizens during the spring of 2003. They have now made four trips to other Arab-world nations as well between 2002 and 2005 carrying their "Musical Missions of Peace" through Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt.

Spiritual Traveler: Journeys Beyond Fear

Biographies & Memoirs

Powers, Cameron

Leaders & Notable People

GL Design

Musicians desiring to play the Dance music, the Sacred music or the Folk music of the Arab and Turkish worlds must study these scales. Discover the musical basis for the incredibly rich emotions associated with Middle Eastern music. Forty-Five Arabic Musical Scales are taught in this book. Many scales include "quartertone" intervals. From Cairo to Tunisia, Damascus to Baghdad, Beirut to Aleppo and as far west as Istanbul and even into Greece, musicians know these scales. Long missing from Western musical training, this book now makes these ancient scales available.

Arabic Musical Scales: Basic Maqam Notation: Basic Maqam Teachings (without CD's)

Computers & Technology

Programming

A real-life modern Musical Mission of Peace into Baghdad: American couple put their hearts on the line and invade Iraq by singing popular Arabic music on the streets of Baghdad as the US Marines invade with weaponry in the spring of 2003. They give another message to Iraqi people: we're here to sing and to learn and to listen. How were they received? And what was it like for them in the streets of Cairo, Ramallah, Amman and other Arab cities armed only with their singing voices and an Oud, an ancient Arabic lute? This is a fantastic view into the hearts and minds of the Arab world unparalleled and unique in modern reporting.

Singing in Baghdad: A Musical Mission of Peace

Religion & Spirituality

The underlying harmonic structure of the musical scales, or "maqams," of the Arabic music of the Indigenous Middle East is revealed to be at one with "Just Intonation" and the Perfect Harmony of the universal laws of physics. This structure is revealed for the benefit of both the serious student of Arabic music and for the musician seeking to move into microtonal compositions in perfect harmony. Moving from the modern Western equally-tempered scales back to the perfection of ancient musical traditions can be the ultimate musical reward. This book is the guide for those who are drawn to this path. Eighty maqamat are taught and another closely-related sixty maqamat are mentioned and categorized. This book moves beyond the use of the "quartertone" concept. Study of the writings and comments made by musicians raised and trained in the indigenous Middle Eastern music traditions makes it clear that justly intonated harmonic ratios or fractions underly the intervals within maqams. This revelation about Middle Eastern harmonic truths makes refreshing material for study and once understood in its basic principles allows us to admire maqam music for its richness of perfect harmony. It is truly ironic that Westerners characterize Arabic music as being "monophonic" and "disinterested in harmony" when in fact it is filled, unlike the equal-tempered Western scale, with physically perfect harmonic intervals, performed in lively intertwining counterpoints. Students of Indian, Persian, Chinese and other ancient music traditions will also find the conceptual frameworks presented in this book highly useful for their learning process. The concepts of just intonation and perfect harmony are carefully explained in the first pages of this book. Everything needed for a clear and comprehensive understanding is included in its 180 pages.

Lost Secrets of Perfect Harmony: Ancient Music of the Indigenous Middle East

Arts & Photography

Music

G. L. Design

How to write Middle Eastern music involves using Eastern modes, Middle East instruments, and genuine Arabic music scales. If you are in love with a Middle Eastern sounding music scale and want to learn Arabic music and related Indian music scales, you need genuine Middle Eastern music theory which is Arabic music theory. Ancient Musical Masters Knew The Secrets of Musical Ecstasy and Healing! For Music to Create It’s Deepest Magic, Perfect Harmony is Needed! Most People Do Not Realize That Modern Musical Scales Are Not In Tune... Much of the Magic Has Been Lost! This Book Presents The Musical Magic of the Indigenous Middle East, Andalusian Spain and tastes of traditions from India and Asia. For the last hundred years European and American musicians have used the equally-tempered pitches of the modern piano keyboard. Ancient modal musical systems have been forgotten. They didn’t fit into this system and many kinds of mathematically perfect harmonies have nearly vanished from conscious music traditions in the West! Perfect Harmony Makes People Feel Really Good! It really is a kind of magic! This book offers what every musician really needs to know: ultimate tools for performance and composition! “I don’t know the song you just played but it feels like it’s in my DNA!” --Typical Audience Response. Now in the twenty-first century we have an increasingly flexible music technology: all the instruments with microtonal musical capabilities such as violins, cellos, ouds, guitars with note-bending-blues-traditions and many wind instruments are in the band or orchestra while new electronic technologies are making keyboards and even smart-phone applications highly tunable and easy to play. By combining details of ancient Middle Eastern Musical “Maqam” teachings and the physics of Just Intonation, which describe perfect harmony, Cameron Powers is able to present a simple solution to these musical mysteries. Musicians can now explore the vast collections of ancient musical modes. Great players and singers unconsciously move into these modes. That’s what makes them great! Why not make this technique conscious? These modes are known as Paga in India, Gaganu in Japan, Maqam by Arabs, Makam by Turks, Magam by Azerbaijanis, Makom or Shashmaqom in Uzbekistan, Tadjikstan, Turkmenistan and the Sinkiang province of China, Dastgah in Persia, Kayyal in Pakistan and Patet in Indonesia. If there is such a thing as “World Music,” this is it! Eighteen of the more than eighty traditional Maqams, or ancient modes, described in this book are the most essential for basic Middle Eastern musical knowledge. These Eighteen scales are described with detailed reference to the physically-perfect harmonies of Just Intonation and are demonstrated on the accompanying CDs, giving the student a solid technique for learning to hear and to perform in any music tradition!

Harmonic Secrets of Arabic Music Scales: Fine Tuning the Maqams: Fine Tuning the Maqams

River runners are a notoriously wild and crazy bunch. This book contains a small taste of the adventures enjoyed by a communal group of friends from Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The author was fortunate enough to be included on four river trips which took place between 1969 and 1975. These adventures involved descents of the Colorado River through Cataract Canyon and the Grand Canyon, the Yampa River through Dinosaur National Monument and Echo Park, and the Green River through the Gates of Lodor, Grays Canyon, Desolation Canyon and Canyonlands National Park. The rafts were of our own design and took a lot of muscle to row through the numerous white water rapids. The pace was leisurely, with plenty of time allowed for each trip. Our passage through the Grand Canyon, for example, was designed to take more than a month. Riding the river for only 2 or 3 hours a day meant plenty of time for hiking, climbing, caving and enjoying the endless varieties of pools and waterfalls which can be found sometimes far up in the side canyons. Spending weeks at a time on the river also meant getting to know each more deeply and allowing the spirit of the canyon rock-scapes to enter our beings more fully. It felt like we were truly living in those canyons, not just passing through. This book contains an expanded version of the written journal kept by the author during a passage through the lower half of the Grand Canyon in 1975. Some of the photos included are from other earlier trips. Venturing down the rivers and canyons of the American West we touch sacred and primal worlds, both outside and inside ourselves. Anyone who has enjoyed such an adventure knows about this. This journal gives a taste of how it looked and felt to our crazy crew.

Naked Wild and Free in the Grand Canyon: Rowing and Roaming

History

Americas

Learn to play the ancient Middle Eastern reed flute known as the nay. Famous in Sufi poetry for its wailing soulful sound, it is not hard to fall totally in love with this instrument. However, it is not so easy to play. Musicians who are flautists already will also have difficulty as the nay requires its own special method or embouchure to make a sound. The notes generated by the nay form primary scales known in the Middle East and Orient as maqams. This book provides instruction, very rare in the West or in English language, on how to generate the complex haunting sounds and also provides finger charts for numerous traditional music scales popular in the East.

Middle Eastern Flute Magic: Play the Nay: Finger Charts for Arabic Music Scales

Could Millions of People Benefit from this Information? One man’s search for a solution to this common problem just might bring beneficial information to many others dealing with this same cardiac arrhythmia problem. But recent surveys reveal that three quarters of the US population may be suffering the consequences of Low Intracellular Magnesium! What are some of these consequences? The list goes on and on: Type II diabetes, Chronic fatigue syndrome, Cardiac arrhythmias, Coronary artery disease and atherosclerosis, Hypertension (High Blood Pressure), ADHD, Epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, Asthma, Bowel diseases, Colorectal Cancer, Kidney disease, Liver disease, Musculoskeletal conditions (fibromyalgia, cramps, chronic back pain, etc.), Migraine, Thyroid problems… For the more complete list see inside the book! The author found a surgical solution to his atrial fibrillation, which can be a very dangerous arrhythmia, back in 2005 more than ten years before he wrote this little book. But the pulmonary vein ablation surgery didn’t cure all of his problems with erratic heart rhythms. The discovery of the link between Low Intracellular Magnesium and debilitating PVC’s (pre-ventricular contractions) and PAC’s (pre-auricular contractions) came from research he had to do on his own. Strangely, no one in the medical profession gave him the powerful clues which he needed. Raising Intracellular Magnesium levels in the heart muscle and in the rest of the body is sometimes not so easy to achieve. In this little book, Cameron Powers lays out the recipes he eventually put together to bring his cardiac arrhythmias under control. Although he could begin to feel improvements after the first two weeks of intravenous treatments, it has taken a year of optimizing multiple Magnesium intake pathways for his heart rhythms to stay solid and for his heart muscle to become pain free. This little book can offer sufficient guidance and inspiration to help others follow a similar path back to their strength. We can bring Magnesium into our cells through Intravenous Infusions, through Magnesium-rich food and water intake, though oral supplementation, and through transdermal absorption. Cameron’s experience has shown him that all of these methods must be employed over a considerable amount of time to achieve complete healing. We must also find ways to facilitate our Magnesium absorption and increase our Magnesium retention. And then of course maintenance is required. But for people who truly suffer from the constant weakness which these cardiac arrhythmias can create, this path back to health can seem like easy magic! Did the wisdom contained in conventional Western medicine contribute to this healing path? Yes. There is a general acknowledgement among modern physicians that low Magnesium is a serious problem. But the information needed to diagnose and treat this problem remains on the medical fringe. In this little book, Cameron explains the results of his research into the different kinds of testing available. It turns out that the most commonly used tests are basically worthless and frequently misleading. Of course the main problem remaining after research and testing is critical. What can we actually do to bring low Intracellular Magnesium levels back up to normal so our bodies, especially our heart muscles, can work properly again. Cameron gives us the details. Fixing our heart rhythms can be a life-changing, even life-saving process for some of us. But it seems that the same keys to testing and then raising low Intracellular Magnesium levels may bring extensive benefits to those who are suffering from many other diseases as well.

Restoring Healthy Heart Rhythms: How I Finally Fixed My Debilitating Cardiac Arrhythmias

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

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