Traditional Music
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France
Traditional music today, in addition to their regional nature, are the continuity of folk movement that took place throughout the French territory in the years 60-70. A vast undertaking collectage began during this period and contributed greatly to the corpus of music (and dance) called traditional in France.
There are several large sets of traditional music, close by their cultural bases. These songs are more or less convergent with the language (langue d'oc, langue d'oil, a Celtic language) spoken:
- traditional music is the best known Breton music.
- the music of Auvergne , the Morvan , the music limousine , Berry, Corrze, Bourbonnais and even of Poitou. Friends by their repertoire of dances and type (except perhaps music Auvergne rather special and having spread across countries langue d'oil).
- It's also found in the Vendee, Brittany Haute (Brittany Gallicantu, or country Gallo), Flanders and Wallonia Gallicantu, Picardie, Flemish music.
- Music Occitan, Occitan music , music Aquitaine , Landes music , etc..
- the Catalan music ,
- the Basque music
- the music Alsatian
- the Corsican music
- the Flemish music
The live music was largely influenced by migrations popular in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, we find common directories of La Rochelle, Dijon, via Rennes and Lille. Basins are still some cultural characteristics with music: French Flanders, or in the Alps.
Each of these cultures includes the instruments used in a bagpipe , and / or accordion (arrived from Italy at the beginning of the century). It may involve the following areas flute, violin, hurdy-gurdy, bombard, percussion.
Today you can hear music in France in the Festivals, including the Inter-Celtic Festival in Lorient , the International Meeting of luthiers and teachers ringers Saint-Chartier , the basalt columns Nights of Puy-en-Velay , the International Folklore Festival of Romans-sur-Isere and in the folk dances , balls or trad fest-noz , most often in halls, sometimes outdoors.
In Europe
- The Celtic music ( Britain , Ireland , Scotland , Wales , Galicia , Asturias )
- Scandinavian music ( Norway , Sweden , Finland )
- The music of the Iberian peninsula ( Spain , Portugal )
- Germanic music ( Switzerland , Austria , Germany )
- The music of Central Europe ( Poland , Czech Republic , Slovakia , Hungary ...)
- The music of the Balkans ( Bulgaria , Romania , Macedonia , Greece ...)
- Music klezmer
- The gypsy music
These traditional music, often intrinsically high value, gave a decisive influence on the one hand the kind of tone poem , and secondly to ethnomusicology. Thus, Constantine Brailoiu , the friend of the Hungarian Bla Bartk and the Romanian George Enescu - themselves composers of art music heavily inspired by the folklore of their countries, as well as many other musicians in the second half of nineteenth century ( Liszt , Dvorak , Grieg , Sibelius ...) and the first half of the twentieth century ( Janacek , Szymanowski , Harsnyi , De Falla , Ropartz ...) - has traveled during the interwar period, most villages remote central Europe and eastern collected, tape recorder in hand, tens of thousands of songs, dances, melodic themes, rhythms, etc.. While art music is replenished saw in direct contact with folk music, this research also conducted by others elsewhere in Europe, led to a renewed understanding of the musical phenomenon.
Quebec
We meet Irish and French influences in the traditional music of Quebec. The jitter Irish mixed with the song in French is to meet the overall result. This unique culture has spread to Quebec through oral tradition. The evenings brought musicians from different parishes to meet and share their versions of the song to answer.
The instruments used are guitar, violin, accordion, spoons, the foot tapping (to make a rhythm with his feet), harp, flute, mandolin, hurdy-gurdy and harmonica (Ruin -Babine).
See also
Bibliography
- External Links
- [ http://www.dailymotion.com/group/musictrad - the traditional music webtv
- - All about the music and dance traditions of the world
- Musictrad, the server of traditional music in France
- The directory of sites on the world music
- Tradmag: the magazine for traditional music
- The Traditional Music of the World
- The Museum of Musical Instruments in Brussels
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