Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture began developing these educational tools in 2012. A highly dedicated team effort by a number of people was instrumental in creating this resource.
Hanna Khoury – oversaw implementation of all music aspects of creating the music content, and recorded violin and viola tracks and the vocal track for one of the songs
Hafez Kotain – recorded percussion tracks on riq, tableh, and daff
Kinan Abou-afach – recorded the cello and oud tracks, mixed the audio files, and arranged the music notation files with separate lines for melody, percussion, and transliterated lyrics
Ayman Alalao – integrated the recorded audio files into an interactive online application that allows the user to follow the music notation and the lyrics with a bar indicator and individually control each of the strings, percussion and vocal tracks.
Founder/Executive Director Hazami Sayed – directed the conception and implementation of this project
Staff members Musa Hamideh, Eric Lundblade, Madeline Conley -– prepared content and lesson plans
Funders Qatar Foundation International, National Network for Arab American Communities, William Penn Foundation
We welcome your feedback and invite you to actively use this educational tool and share your comments with us!