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Instruments• Common Instruments
▫ Bagpipes▫ Accordion▫ Bodhran (Scotland and
Ireland)▫ Fiddle▫ Tin Whistle▫ Harp▫ Guitar▫ Bones (Spoons)
Examples of Music• Irish – Down by the Salley Gardens• Scottish - Puirt à Beul• English – Sailor’s Hornpipe• Welsh - Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through the Night)
• Research Links ▫Scottish Music▫ Irish Songs
• Smithsonian Folkways Videos▫A Nautical Irish Evening▫A Song from Wales▫Welsh Folk Songs
Ireland• Irish traditional music
includes many kinds of songs, including drinking songs, ballads and laments, sung unaccompanied or with accompaniment by a variety of instruments.
• Traditional dance music includes reels (4/4), hornpipes and jigs (the common double jig is in 6/8 time).
• Examples • Reel – Cooney
’s Reel and Drowsy Maggie – Duple Meter
• Jig – Irish Washerwoman – Triple Meter• Irish Dancing
• GCSE Bitesize – Irish Dance Music
Instruments
•Dulcimer•Fiddle•Hardanger Fiddle
▫ – Fiddle with sympathetic strings.•Harmonica •Accordion•Hurdy Gurdy
Characteristics and Examples
•Dulcimer and fiddle are the most prominent instruments.
•Dance music – Mazurka, Valz, Polka, etc. – very popular.
•Music that tells a story.
•Research Links▫Generic Info
Examples of Music from each Country.
• Eivør – Trøllabundin• Morsiamen Itketys• Klinga mina klockor• Trædballehus Polka• 3 Finnish Folk Inst.• Violin and Zither• Swedish dance to Soldier’s
Joy (English folk song)• Danish traditional dance• Traditional Fighting Danc
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Germany - Bavaria• Southern Part of Germany
– Alps• Instruments
▫ Accordion▫ Brass Instruments
Trumpet Trombone Tuba/Sousaphone
▫ Hammer Dulcimer▫ Guitar▫ Harp▫ Alphorn
• Brass Bands• Yodeling
Examples of German Music (Maybe some Austrian)
• Zsammg'spuit• Goldried Quintett• X'seis Trio
• Der Jäger aus Kurpfalz• Im Wald Und Auf Der Heid
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Spain• Instruments
▫ Classical Guitar▫ Castanets – The national instrument
of Spain.▫ Accordion▫ Palmas – palms, body percussion▫ Gaita – Bagpipe
• Focus on smaller ensembles.• Dance music from different regions.• Influences from Celtic, African,
Arabic, Gypsy, Jewish, and Christian cultures.
• Northern Spain – bagpipe (gaita) culture
• Southern Spain – flamenco culture▫ Why?
Examples of Spanish Music• En el Café de Chinitas• Malagueña – Originated in
Andalucia – became a flamenco style.
• Fandango – Dance• Jota – Dance• Gaitas Asturianas• Moraito Chico – Bulerias• Al Toque Flamenco• Bolero and Tanguillo• Por El Hablar He La Gente
Links to resources on Spanish Music.
•Spanish Dances – Descriptions•The Rough Guide to Flamenco Dance•A little History.
Greece• Instruments
▫ 3 Main Groups Chordophones Aerophones Membraphones
▫ Violin (Violi)▫ Bouzouki▫ Clarinet (Klarino)▫ Lyra (Rebec)▫ Tambourine▫ Toubeleki (Ceramic
hourglass drum) – similar to doubek.
Greek Music Examples▫Παπαναστάσης Ήλιε Ηλιά
κη▫Kristi Stassinopoulou:
Sto Patithraki▫Μά'ισσα Σεληνη-Νικος
Παπαζογλου▫Popova kerka
- Greek folk music (Almopia, Macedonia, Greece)
Examples of Italian Music
•Totore Chessa: Costera•Domo Emigrantes• Tarantella rosi e sciuri•Polka dzalaye
Examples of Portuguese Music
•Fado Portugues•Marcha dos manjericos•Santa Marta de Portuzelo
Eastern EuropePoland, Belarus, Ukraine, Czeck Republic, Slovenia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Abania, Western Russia… etc.
Gypsy/Romani• Largely popular in Central
and Eastern Europe. Highest populations in Romania, Hungary, and former Yugoslavia.
• Romani – Originated in Northern India. Were Nomadic people who travelled in Europe and are mostly settled.
• What instruments can you hear in these Romani examples?
• Ion Petre Stoican - Hora Lui Mihalea
• Oppadirida - Cimbali Band• Oleg Ponomarev's Koshka
Klezmer - Jewish• Klezmer music is intended to
replicate the human voice, including sounds of crying, wailing and laughing. It is generally the violin's job to do this imitation. Often, a klezmer band will include a fiddle, a bass or cello, a clarinet and a drum. Secondary instruments include hammered dulcimers and accordion.
• Made for dancing.• May contain influences from
many other cultures/genres.
• Chava Alberstein - A Good Memory
• Amsterdam Klezmer Band: Takaj Zhizn
• In Your Garden Twenty Fecund Fruit Trees - Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars
• Brave Old World
Extras• Balalaika – Triangular
Russian Lute – 3 strings, 2 the same pitch, 1 a different pitch.
• Mandolin – Tuned the same as a violin (5ths, E A D G). Double strings.
• Jaw Harp• Cimbalom – Type of
hammered dulcimer.
• Bulgarian Choir• Medley of Ukrainian Folk
Songs• Polka – meaning “Polish
Woman”. Very popular dance music played throughout Europe.
• French Accordion