EUROPEWestern, Northern, Eastern, Southern

Europe

European Music European music includes a vast variety

of styles, genres, and instrumentation Europe, for our purposes, is going to be

divided into four regions:Western: France, Portugal, SpainNorthern: Belgium, Denmark, Finland,

Germany, Ireland, Norway, SwedenEastern: Austria, Czech Republic, RussiaSouthern: Greece, Italy

Western Europe

Portugal Portuguese music was influenced by

music from Ancient Rome's musical tradition brought into the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans and the rich artistic Europen tradition.

Portugal is internationally known in the music scene for its traditions of fado. Fado songs are typically lyrically harsh, with the singer resigned to sadness, poverty and loneliness, but remaining dignified and firmly controlled.

Portugal Popular music:

Pimba Música de

IntervençãoRomanticLatin (90s)

Modern music:AfricanJazzReggae/SkaZouk

RockMetalElectronicIndie

Spain In Spain, several very different cultural streams came

together in the first centuries of the Christian era: the Roman culture, which was dominant for several hundred

years, and which brought with it the music and ideas of Ancient Greece

early Christians, who had their own version of the Roman Rite

the Visigoths, an North Germanic tribe who overran the Iberian peninsula in the 5th century

Jews of the diaspora eventually the Moors and Arabs

Determining exactly the various influences is, after more than two thousand years of internal and external influences and developments, impossible but the result has been a large number of unique musical traditions.

Spain Spanish classical music was very influential

during the Renaissance and Baroque music eras. Classical music declined through the 17th to 19th centuries.

Spain is well known for flamenco, which comes out of Andalusia

Jota, a popular folk music throughout Spain, is performed by the castanets, guitar, bandurria, tambourines, and sometimes the flute

The fandango, which can not be derived from a single location, is popular across Spain

Spain During the 1960s and early 1970s, tourism had a huge

increase, bringing yet more musical styles from the rest of the continent and abroad. However, it wasn't until the 1980s that Spain's pop music industry began to take off (and this guy).

During this time a cultural reawakening known as La Movida Madrileña produced an explosion of new art, film and music that continues to this day.

Contemporary Spanish pop is as risky and cutting-edge as any scene in the world, and encompasses everything from shiny electronica and Eurodisco, to homegrown blues, rock, punk, ska, reggae and hip-hop to name a few.

From the English pop-refrain words "yeah-yeah", ye-yé (first) was a French-coined term which Spanish language appropriated to refer to uptempo, "spirit lifting" pop music.

Artists like Enrique Iglesias and Alejandro Sanz have become successful internationally

France French music dates back to the 10th century,

and the troubadour songs of chivalry and love were very popular through the 13th century

Motets, a very popular classical style throughout Europe, began in France

Jean-Baptiste Lully, who had become well known for composing ballets for Louis XIV, began creating a French version of the Italian opera seria, a kind of tragic opera known as tragédie lyrique or tragédie en musique

The French composer, Georges Bizet, composed Carmen, one of the most well known and popular operas

France In the late 19th century, pioneers

like Georges Bizet, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy revitalized French music. The last two had an enormous impact on 20th century music, both in France and abroad, and influenced many major composers like Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky

Folk music- French Waltz, bouree, hurdy gurdy, Corsica, Brittany, French Caribbean

France- Popular music Chanson Française- classic, new Rock and roll Rock Metal French house Rap Rai And then there’s this… And this…

Northern Europe

Ireland The indigenous music of the island is

termed Irish traditional music. It has remained vibrant through the 20th, and into the 21st century.

In spite of emigration and a well-developed connection to music influences from Britain and the United States, Irish music has kept many of its traditional aspects and has itself influenced many forms of music, such as country and roots music in the USA.

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, hornpipes, and jigs. The polka arrived at the start of the nineteenth century, spread by itinerant dancing masters and mercenary soldiers, returning from Europe.

Later imported dance-signatures include the mazurka and the highlands. 

In the nineteenth century folk instruments would have included the flute the fiddle and the uilleann pipes.

Ireland- Popular music Irish showbands Country & Irish Fusion Pop Rock U2 Enya Van Morrison The Cranberries Westlife

Belgium The music of Belgium is a cultural

crossroads where Flemish Dutch-speaking and Walloon French-speaking traditions mix with those of German minorities and of immigrant communities from Democratic Republic of the Congo and other distant countries.

Belgium Classical Opera Blues Jazz Folk Chanson Hip hop Pop Rock Metal

Electronic African And this

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Germany The beginning of what is now considered

German music could be traced back to the 12th century compositions of mystic abbess Hildegard of Bingen, who wrote a variety of hymns and other kinds of Christian music.

Germans have played a leading role in the development of classical music. Many of the best classical musicians such as Bach, Handel, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, Mahler, or Schoenberg were German

Germany Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die

Zauberflöte (1791) is usually said to be the beginning of German-language opera, which was further advanced by composers like Ludwig van Beethoven

When the Nazis came to power in Germany during the 1930s, many musicians fled the country. Following the war, German composers began experimenting electronic sounds in classical music.

Germany- Folk

Oom-pah (brass bands & beer) Bavarian Swabian Schlager Liedermacher

Germany- Popular

Rock Metal- Goth, Medieval Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) Hamburger Schule Ostrock Rap Electronic & Techno Jazz

Norway Before 1840, there were limited written

sources of folk music in Norway. Originally these historical attainments were believed to have a distinct Christian influence. As research continued, there was also mythical and fairy tale connections to the folk music. Overall the purpose of folk music was for entertainment and dancing.

Norwegian folk music may be divided into two categories: instrumental (dance) and vocal.

Norway After World War II, Norwegian music began

moving in a new direction, away from the Nordic and Germanic ideals of the past, and towards a more international, especially American, British and French, style

Much of the Norwegian public did not appreciate the new direction these avant-garde composers were moving in, which helped to fuel a conservative backlash

Norway