Medieval Instruments

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Medieval Instruments Medieval Instruments A Wikipedia Compilation by Michael A. Linton Contents 1 Adufe 1 1.1 History ................................................. 1 1.2 Features ................................................ 2 1.3 See also ................................................ 2 1.4 References ............................................... 2 2 Piffero 3 2.1 Other uses of the term piffero ..................................... 4 2.2 Notes ................................................. 4 2.3 External links ............................................. 4 3 Citole 6 3.1 British Museum citole ......................................... 6 3.2 External links ............................................. 6 3.3 References ............................................... 6 4 Crumhorn 8 4.1 Terminology .............................................. 8 4.2 Description .............................................. 9 4.3 Different sizes ............................................. 9 4.4 Literature for crumhorn ........................................ 9 4.5 References .............................................. 9 4.6 Sources ................................................ 9 4.7 Further reading ............................................ 10 4.8 External links ............................................. 10 4.8.1 Media ............................................. 10 4.8.2 Encyclopedias ......................................... 10 5 Cymbal 11 5.1 Etymology .............................................. 11 5.2 Anatomy ............................................... 11 5.3 Types ................................................. 12 5.3.1 Orchestral cymbals ...................................... 12 5.3.2 Crash cymbals ........................................ 12 i ii CONTENTS 5.3.3 Hi hats ............................................ 13 5.3.4 Suspended cymbal ...................................... 14 5.3.5 Ancient cymbals ....................................... 14 5.3.6 List of cymbal types ..................................... 14 5.4 See also ................................................ 15 5.5 Manufacturers ............................................. 15 5.6 See Also ................................................ 16 5.7 References .............................................. 16 5.8 External links ............................................. 16 6 Gittern 20 6.1 Structure ............................................... 20 6.2 Relationship between Gittern, the Citole, Lute and Guitar family ................... 20 6.3 Etymology and Identity ........................................ 22 6.4 Role in literature ........................................... 25 6.4.1 Cantigas of Santa Maria ................................... 25 6.4.2 Guillaume de Machaut .................................... 26 6.4.3 Geoffrey Chaucer ....................................... 27 6.4.4 Other written records ..................................... 27 6.5 References ............................................... 28 6.6 External links ............................................. 28 7 Lute 29 7.1 Etymology ............................................... 29 7.2 Construction .............................................. 29 7.2.1 Soundboard .......................................... 29 7.2.2 Back .............................................. 29 7.2.3 Neck ............................................. 30 7.2.4 Belly ............................................. 30 7.2.5 Bridge ............................................. 31 7.2.6 Frets .............................................. 31 7.2.7 Strings ............................................. 31 7.3 History and evolution of the lute ................................... 31 7.3.1 Early precursors ........................................ 32 7.3.2 From Middle Ages to Baroque ................................ 35 7.4 Lute in the modern world ....................................... 35 7.5 Lute repertoire ............................................. 36 7.6 Lute revival and composers ...................................... 37 7.7 Tuning conventions .......................................... 37 7.8 See also ................................................ 38 7.8.1 Instruments .......................................... 38 7.8.2 Composers of lute music ................................... 39 CONTENTS iii 7.8.3 Lute players .......................................... 40 7.8.4 Lute makers .......................................... 40 7.9 Notes ................................................. 40 7.10 References ............................................... 41 7.11 External links ............................................. 42 8 Oud 51 8.1 Etymology ............................................... 51 8.2 History ................................................. 51 8.3 Types ................................................. 52 8.4 See also ................................................ 53 8.5 References ............................................... 53 8.6 External links ............................................. 54 9 Psaltery 55 9.1 Ancient harp psaltery ......................................... 55 9.2 Ancient European zither psaltery ................................... 55 9.3 Medieval psaltery ........................................... 55 9.4 Modern psaltery ............................................ 55 9.5 See also ................................................ 56 9.6 Notes ................................................. 57 9.7 References ............................................... 57 9.8 External links ............................................. 57 10 Rebec 59 10.1 Origins ................................................ 59 10.2 Tuning ................................................ 59 10.3 In use ................................................. 59 10.4 Artists ................................................. 60 10.5 The rebec in popular culture ..................................... 60 10.6 See also ................................................ 60 10.7 References ............................................... 61 10.8 External links ............................................. 61 11 Sackbut 62 11.1 Terminological history ........................................ 62 11.2 History ................................................ 63 11.3 Instrument sizes ............................................ 64 11.4 Construction ............................................. 66 11.5 Pitch ................................................. 66 11.6 Timbre ................................................ 67 11.7 Performance practice ......................................... 67 11.8 Repertoire ............................................... 68 iv CONTENTS 11.8.1 Before 1600 .......................................... 68 11.8.2 1600-1700 .......................................... 68 11.8.3 1700-1750 .......................................... 71 11.8.4 1750-1800 .......................................... 72 11.9 Modern performance ......................................... 72 11.9.1 Medieval ........................................... 72 11.9.2 Renaissance / Baroque small chamber music ......................... 72 11.10Recordings .............................................. 73 11.11Early surviving instruments ...................................... 73 11.12Modern manufacturers ........................................ 73 11.13See also ................................................ 74 11.14References .............................................. 74 11.15Further reading ............................................ 75 11.15.1 Historical references ..................................... 75 11.16External links ............................................. 75 12 Shawm 79 12.1 Etymology ............................................... 79 12.2 Use of shawms ............................................ 80 12.3 Progeny of the shawm ......................................... 82 12.3.1 Charumera .......................................... 82 12.4 Catalan shawms and other types of shawms .............................. 82 12.5 Modern performance ......................................... 82 12.6 See also ................................................ 82 12.7 References ............................................... 83 12.8 Further reading ............................................ 83 12.9 External links ............................................. 83 13 Timbrel 84 13.1 History ................................................. 84 13.2 See also ................................................ 85 13.3 Notes ................................................. 85 13.4 References ............................................... 85 13.5 Further reading ............................................ 85 14 Viol 86 14.1 History ................................................. 86 14.2 Construction .............................................. 88 14.2.1 Viol bows ........................................... 90 14.3 Versions ................................................ 90 14.4 Tuning ................................................. 91 14.5 Treatises ................................................ 92 CONTENTS v 14.6 Popularity ............................................... 92 14.7 Modern era .............................................. 93 14.7.1 New compositions for viol .................................. 94 14.7.2 Electric viols ......................................... 94 14.8 Similar names and common confusions ...............................
Recommended publications
  • The Motets of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli in the Rokycany Music Collection
    Musica Iagellonica 2017 ISSN 1233–9679 Kateřina Maýrová (Czech Museum of Music, Prague) The motets of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli in the Rokycany Music Collection This work provides a global survey on the Italian music repertoire contained in the music collection that is preserved in the Roman-Catholic parish of Roky- cany, a town located near Pilsen in West-Bohemia, with a special regard to the polychoral repertoire of the composers Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli and their influence on Bohemian cori-spezzati compositions. The mutual comparison of the Italian and Bohemian polychoral repertoire comprises also a basic compara- tion with the most important music collections preserved in the area of the so- called historical Hungarian Lands (today’s Slovakia), e.g. the Bardejov [Bart- feld / Bártfa] (BMC) and the Levoča [Leutschau / Löcse] Music Collections. From a music-historical point of view, the Rokycany Music Collection (RMC) of musical prints and manuscripts stemming from the second half of the 16th to the first third of the 17th centuries represents a very interesting complex of music sources. They were originally the property of the Rokycany litterati brotherhood. The history of the origin and activities of the Rokycany litterati brother- hood can be followed only in a very fragmentary way. 1 1 Cf. Jiří Sehnal, “Cantionál. 1. The Czech kancionál”, in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie, 29 vols. (London–New York: Macmillan, 20012), vol. 5: 59–62. To the problems of the litterati brotherhoods was devoted the conference, held in 2004 65 Kateřina Maýrová The devastation of many historical sites during the Thirty Years War, fol- lowed by fires in 1728 and 1784 that destroyed much of Rokycany and the church, resulted in the loss of a significant part of the archives.
    [Show full text]
  • SILK ROAD: the Silk Road
    SILK ROAD: The Silk Road (or Silk Routes) is an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, as well as North and Northeast Africa and Europe. FIDDLE/VIOLIN: Turkic and Mongolian horsemen from Inner Asia were probably the world’s earliest fiddlers (see below). Their two-stringed upright fiddles called morin khuur were strung with horsehair strings, played with horsehair bows, and often feature a carved horse’s head at the end of the neck. The morin khuur produces a sound that is poetically described as “expansive and unrestrained”, like a wild horse neighing, or like a breeze in the grasslands. It is believed that these instruments eventually spread to China, India, the Byzantine Empire and the Middle East, where they developed into instruments such as the Erhu, the Chinese violin or 2-stringed fiddle, was introduced to China over a thousand years ago and probably came to China from Asia to the west along the silk road. The sound box of the Ehru is covered with python skin. The erhu is almost always tuned to the interval of a fifth. The inside string (nearest to player) is generally tuned to D4 and the outside string to A4. This is the same as the two middle strings of the violin. The violin in its present form emerged in early 16th-Century Northern Italy, where the port towns of Venice and Genoa maintained extensive ties to central Asia through the trade routes of the silk road. The violin family developed during the Renaissance period in Europe (16th century) when all arts flourished.
    [Show full text]
  • An Anthropological Perspective on Eastern and Western Folk Music
    An Anthropological Perspective on Eastern and Western Folk Music Item Type text; Electronic Thesis Authors Gurczak, Adam Stanley Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 28/09/2021 21:02:58 Item License http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625002 AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON EASTERN AND WESTERN FOLK MUSIC By ADAM STANLEY GURCZAK ____________________ A Thesis Submitted to The Honors College In Partial Fulfillment of the Bachelors Degree With Honors in Music Performance THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA MAY 2017 Approved by: _________________________ Dr. Philip Alejo Department of Music EASTERN AND WESTERN FOLK MUSIC 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT 2 ARTIST’S STATEMENT 2 INTRODUCTION 3 ARGENTINE TANGO 4 PRE-TANGO HISTORY: RISE OF THE GAUCHOS 5 A BORDELLO UPBRINGING 5 THE ROOTS AND RHYTHMS OF TANGO 8 A WORLDWIDE SENSATION 9 THE FOREFATHERS OF TANGO 11 CHINESE TRADITIONAL MUSIC 13 THE PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC 14 INSTRUMENTS OF THE EARTH 16 THE SOUND OF SCHOLARS 18 KOREAN GUGAK 21 GUGAK: A NATIONAL IDENTITY 22 SHAMANS, SINAWI, AND SANJO 24 NOBLE COURTS AND FARMYARDS 28 AMERICAN BLUEGRASS 30 GRASSROOTS, BLUEGRASS, AND BLUES 30 THE POLYNATION OF BLUEGRASS 33 CONCLUSION 36 BIBLIOGRAPHY 37 EASTERN AND WESTERN FOLK MUSIC 2 ABSTRACT The birth of folk music has always depended on the social, political, and cultural conditions of a particular country and its people.
    [Show full text]
  • The Science of String Instruments
    The Science of String Instruments Thomas D. Rossing Editor The Science of String Instruments Editor Thomas D. Rossing Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) Stanford, CA 94302-8180, USA [email protected] ISBN 978-1-4419-7109-8 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-7110-4 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-7110-4 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer ScienceþBusiness Media (www.springer.com) Contents 1 Introduction............................................................... 1 Thomas D. Rossing 2 Plucked Strings ........................................................... 11 Thomas D. Rossing 3 Guitars and Lutes ........................................................ 19 Thomas D. Rossing and Graham Caldersmith 4 Portuguese Guitar ........................................................ 47 Octavio Inacio 5 Banjo ...................................................................... 59 James Rae 6 Mandolin Family Instruments........................................... 77 David J. Cohen and Thomas D. Rossing 7 Psalteries and Zithers .................................................... 99 Andres Peekna and Thomas D.
    [Show full text]
  • Temple University Wind Symphony Patricia Cornett, Conductor
    Temple University Wind Symphony Patricia Cornett, conductor November 13, 2020 Friday Presented Virtually 7:30 pm Program Mood Swings Interludes composed by members of Dr. Cynthia Folio’s Post-Tonal Theory Class. Performed by Allyson Starr, flute and Joshua Schairer, bassoon. Aria della battaglia (1590) Andrea Gabrieli (1532–1585) ed. Mark Davis Scatterday Love Letter in Miniature Marcos Acevedo-Arús Fratres (1977) Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) arr. Beat Briner Schyler Adkins, graduate student conductor Echoes Allyson Starr Motown Metal (1994) Michael Daugherty (b. 1954) Unmoved Joshua Schairer Petite Symphonie (1885) Charles Gounod (1818–1893) I. Adagio, Allegro II. Andante cantabile III. Scherzo: Allegro moderato IV. Finale: Allegretto Ninety-fourth performance of the 2020-2021 season. Bulls-Eye (2019) Viet Cuong (b. 1990) Musings Spicer W. Carr Drei Lustige Märsche, Op. 44 (1926) Ernst Krenek (1900–1991) Temple University Wind Symphony Patricia Cornett, conductor FLUTE TRUMPET Ruby Ecker-Wylie Maria Carvell Hyerin Kim Anthony Casella Jill Krikorian Daniel Hein Allyson Starr Jacob Springer Malinda Voell Justin Vargas OBOE TROMBONE Geoffrey Deemer Rachel Core Lexi Kroll Jeffrey Dever Brandon Lauffer Samuel Johnson Amanda Rearden Omeed Nyman Sarah Walsh Andrew Sedlacsick CLARINET EUPHONIUM Abbegail Atwater Jason Costello Wendy Bickford Veronica Laguna Samuel Brooks Cameron Harper TUBA Alyssa Kenney Mary Connor Will Klotsas Chris Liounis Alexander Phipps PERCUSSION BASSOON Emilyrose Ristine Rick Barrantes Joel Cammarota Noah Hall Jake Strovel Tracy Nguyen Milo Paperman Collin Odom Andrew Stern Joshua Schairer PIANO SAXOPHONE Madalina Danila Jocelyn Abrahamzon Ian McDaniel GRADUATE ASSISTANTS Sam Scarlett Schyler Adkins Kevin Vu Amanda Dumm HORN Isaac Duquette Kasey Friend MacAdams Danielle O’Hare Jordan Spivack Lucy Smith Program Notes Aria della battaglia Andrea Gabrieli A prominent figure in Renaissance Italy, Andrea Gabrieli acted as principal organist and composer at the St.
    [Show full text]
  • WORKSHOP: Around the World in 30 Instruments Educator’S Guide [email protected]
    WORKSHOP: Around The World In 30 Instruments Educator’s Guide www.4shillingsshort.com [email protected] AROUND THE WORLD IN 30 INSTRUMENTS A MULTI-CULTURAL EDUCATIONAL CONCERT for ALL AGES Four Shillings Short are the husband-wife duo of Aodh Og O’Tuama, from Cork, Ireland and Christy Martin, from San Diego, California. We have been touring in the United States and Ireland since 1997. We are multi-instrumentalists and vocalists who play a variety of musical styles on over 30 instruments from around the World. Around the World in 30 Instruments is a multi-cultural educational concert presenting Traditional music from Ireland, Scotland, England, Medieval & Renaissance Europe, the Americas and India on a variety of musical instruments including hammered & mountain dulcimer, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, Medieval and Renaissance woodwinds, recorders, tinwhistles, banjo, North Indian Sitar, Medieval Psaltery, the Andean Charango, Irish Bodhran, African Doumbek, Spoons and vocals. Our program lasts 1 to 2 hours and is tailored to fit the audience and specific music educational curriculum where appropriate. We have performed for libraries, schools & museums all around the country and have presented in individual classrooms, full school assemblies, auditoriums and community rooms as well as smaller more intimate settings. During the program we introduce each instrument, talk about its history, introduce musical concepts and follow with a demonstration in the form of a song or an instrumental piece. Our main objective is to create an opportunity to expand people’s understanding of music through direct expe- rience of traditional folk and world music. ABOUT THE MUSICIANS: Aodh Og O’Tuama grew up in a family of poets, musicians and writers.
    [Show full text]
  • PASIC 2010 Program
    201 PASIC November 10–13 • Indianapolis, IN PROGRAM PAS President’s Welcome 4 Special Thanks 6 Area Map and Restaurant Guide 8 Convention Center Map 10 Exhibitors by Name 12 Exhibit Hall Map 13 Exhibitors by Category 14 Exhibitor Company Descriptions 18 Artist Sponsors 34 Wednesday, November 10 Schedule of Events 42 Thursday, November 11 Schedule of Events 44 Friday, November 12 Schedule of Events 48 Saturday, November 13 Schedule of Events 52 Artists and Clinicians Bios 56 History of the Percussive Arts Society 90 PAS 2010 Awards 94 PASIC 2010 Advertisers 96 PAS President’s Welcome elcome 2010). On Friday (November 12, 2010) at Ten Drum Art Percussion Group from Wback to 1 P.M., Richard Cooke will lead a presen- Taiwan. This short presentation cer- Indianapolis tation on the acquisition and restora- emony provides us with an opportu- and our 35th tion of “Old Granddad,” Lou Harrison’s nity to honor and appreciate the hard Percussive unique gamelan that will include a short working people in our Society. Arts Society performance of this remarkable instru- This year’s PAS Hall of Fame recipi- International ment now on display in the plaza. Then, ents, Stanley Leonard, Walter Rosen- Convention! on Saturday (November 13, 2010) at berger and Jack DeJohnette will be We can now 1 P.M., PAS Historian James Strain will inducted on Friday evening at our Hall call Indy our home as we have dig into the PAS instrument collection of Fame Celebration. How exciting to settled nicely into our museum, office and showcase several rare and special add these great musicians to our very and convention space.
    [Show full text]
  • Yayını Görüntülemek Için Tıklayın
    Prof. Sir John Boardman Sir John Boardman’ın 90. Yaşı Onuruna In Honour of Sir John Boardman on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday TÜBA-AR Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi Arkeoloji Dergisi Turkish Academy of Sciences Journal of Archaeology Sayı: 20 Volume: 20 2017 TÜBA-AR TÜBA Arkeoloji (TÜBA-AR) Dergisi TÜBA-AR uluslararası hakemli bir TÜRKİYE BİLİMLER AKADEMİSİ ARKEOLOJİ DERGİSİ dergi olup TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM (SBVT) ve Avrupa İnsani Bilimler Referans TÜBA-AR, Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi (TÜBA) tarafından yıllık olarak yayın- İndeksi (ERIH PLUS) veritabanlarında lanan uluslararası hakemli bir dergidir. Derginin yayın politikası, kapsamı ve taranmaktadır. içeriği ile ilgili kararlar, Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi Konseyi tarafından belir- lenen Yayın Kurulu tarafından alınır. TÜBA Journal of Archaeology (TÜBA-AR) TÜBA-AR is an international refereed DERGİNİN KAPSAMI VE YAYIN İLKELERİ journal and indexed in the TUBİTAK ULAKBİM (SBVT) and The European TÜBA-AR dergisi ilke olarak, dönem ve coğrafi bölge sınırlaması olmadan Reference Index for the Humanities arkeoloji ve arkeoloji ile bağlantılı tüm alanlarda yapılan yeni araştırma, yo- and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS) databases. rum, değerlendirme ve yöntemleri kapsamaktadır. Dergi arkeoloji alanında yeni yapılan çalışmalara yer vermenin yanı sıra, bir bilim akademisi yayın organı Sahibi / Owner: olarak, arkeoloji ile bağlantılı olmak koşuluyla, sosyal bilimlerin tüm uzmanlık Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi adına Prof. Dr. Ahmet Cevat ACAR alanlarına açıktır; bu alanlarda gelişen yeni yorum, yaklaşım, analizlere yer veren (Başkan / President) bir forum oluşturma işlevini de yüklenmiştir. Sorumlu Yazı İşleri Müdürü Dergi, arkeoloji ile ilgili yeni açılımları kapsamlı olarak ele almak için belirli Managing Editor bir konuya odaklanmış yazıları “dosya” şeklinde kapsamına alabilir; bu amaçla Prof.
    [Show full text]
  • Universidade Estadual De Campinas Rodolfo Vilaggio
    UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE CAMPINAS RODOLFO VILAGGIO ARILHO ESTUDO INTERPRETATIVO DA OBRA VARIAÇÕES RÍTMICAS OPUS 15 DE MARLOS NOBRE CAMPINAS 2018 UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE CAMPINAS RODOLFO VILAGGIO ARILHO ESTUDO INTERPRETATIVO DA OBRA VARIAÇÕES RÍTMICAS OPUS 15 DE MARLOS NOBRE Tese de Doutorado apresentada a Pós- Graduação do Instituto de Artes da Universidade Estadual de Campinas como parte dos requisitos exigidos para a obtenção do título de Doutor em Música. Área de concentração: Música: Teoria, Criação e Prática. Orientador: Prof. Dr. Fernando Augusto de Almeida Hashimoto Este exemplar corresponde à versão final da tese defendida pelo aluno Rodolfo Vilaggio Arilho, e orientado pelo Prof. Dr. Fernando Augusto de Almeida Hashimoto. CAMPINAS 2018 15 Agência(s) de fomento e nº(s) de processo(s): Não se aplica. Ficha catalográfica Universidade Estadual de Campinas Biblioteca do Instituto de Artes Silvia Regina Shiroma - CRB 8/8180 Arilho, Rodolfo Vilaggio, 1979- Ar42e AriEstudo interpretativo da obra Variações Rítmicas opus 15 de Marlos Nobre / Rodolfo Vilaggio Arilho. – Campinas, SP : [s.n.], 2018. AriOrientador: Fernando Augusto de Almeida Hashimoto. AriTese (doutorado) – Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes. Ari1. Nobre, Marlos, 1939-. 2. Percussão (Música). 3. Instrumentos de percussão. 4. Música brasileira. 5. Música - Interpretação (Fraseado, dinâmica, etc.). I. Hashimoto, Fernando Augusto de Almeida, 1972-. II. Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Artes. III. Título. Informações para Biblioteca Digital
    [Show full text]
  • Vocabulaire Des Musiques Latino-Américaines
    JORGE ANTUÑES ISABELLE LEYMARIE CHRISTOPHE PIRENNE VOCABULAIRE DES MUSIQUES LATINO-AMERICAINES Minerve Musique Ouverte AVANT PROPOS L'immense espace géographique qui va de la Terre de Feu au Sud du Texas et des côtes du Chili aux Petites Antilles fut le théâtre sublime et sanglant d'une histoire marquée par d’incessants mouvements migratoires qui débutèrent au XVIe siècle, avec la colonisation. La diversité et l’ampleur de ces flux d'hommes de toutes races, de toutes provenances et de toutes croyances est à l'origine d’un univers culturel complexe, dont la principale caractéristique est le métissage. Les rencontres entre les indiens et les occidentaux, entre les indiens et les noirs africains, entre les occidentaux et les africains, entre les nombreuses races africaines... ont été à l'origine de phénomènes d'acculturation complexes et variés. Les musiques indigènes, européennes et africaines ont été réinterprétées, recréées pour aboutir à des formes inédites variant selon les régions ou le degré d’influence de chacune des sources. À côté des chocs brutaux résultant des génocides ou de la succession de colonisateurs, les différentes phases de colonisation de certaines régions se sont opérées tantôt par une lente maturation des acquis (lorsque ces régions connaissent une relative stabilité), tantôt "naturellement" (dans les régions les plus hostiles certains indigènes ont préservé leur culture). La collecte de ce répertoire traditionnel est, le plus souvent, très récente, et de nombreuses analyses ont porté sur des descriptions plutôt que sur des sources sonores ou de la musique écrite. Dans le cas de certaines civilisations précolombiennes (Aztèques, Mayas, Incas) l’archéologie, de même que la conservation de certains codex ou, comme au Pérou, le témoignage de colons avisés tels que Garcilaso de la Vega et Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, ont permis de combler certaines lacunes.
    [Show full text]
  • Two Common Errors About the Proportions of the ‛Ūd
    ICONEA 2011 On the other hand, the‛ūd as we know it in its current form since the eleventh century, due to various, principally ideological considerations, has been the catalyst of most of the organological er- rors and arbitrary postulations3. In the present paper, we shall explore mainly two obvious errors about the instrument. The first one being Farmer’s description of a-ţ-ŢaĦĦān’s TWO COMMON ERRORS 'archlute', of great importance because it reveals the ABOUT careless attitude of Orientalist musicology towards scientific truth. The second is Poché’s so-called THE PROPORTIONS hemispherical body of al-Kindī’s‛ūd. Both errors are extremely misleading especially because of their OF THE ‛ŪD: wide repute in the literature4. Ibn a-ţ-ŢaĦĦān Ibn a-ţ-ŢaĦĦān’s’5 archlute according to Farmer 1 and al-Kindī In 1939, Henry George Farmer’6 described an archlute which would have been 180 cm tall. It would have been designed by Abū-l-Ģassan ibn a-ţ- Amine Beyhom ŢaĦĦān, a musician from Fatimid Egypt. In 1979, Curtis Bouterse7 corrected Farmer’s assumption on Introduction the basis of logic. A-ţ-ŢaĦĦān’s lute was brought back to a more reasonable size, closer to modern The ‛ūd and the ţunbūr are generically called proportions. However, the misinterpretation per- 'lutes' in archaeomusicology. This leads to persistent sisted for forty years during which musicologists misunderstandings about the origins of both were amazed at the size of this instrument, without instruments. They are, as far as we know, distinct disputing Farmer’s description. In the first part of in their origins as well as in their organology.
    [Show full text]
  • A Look at the History of Instrumental Performance
    Turkish Journal of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation; 32(3) ISSN 2651-4451 | e-ISSN 2651-446X A LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE Haydarov Azizbek1, Talaboyev Azizjon2, Madaminov Siddiqjon3, Mamatov Jalolxon4 1,2,3,4Fergana Regional Branch of Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Culture [email protected], [email protected]. [email protected], [email protected] ABSTRACT This article tells about the emergence and development of Uzbek folk music and instrumental performance in Central Asia. There are many legends about the creation of musical instruments. One of such legends is cited by musicologist B.Matyokubov. According to the narrations, the instruments of Tanbur, Dutor, Nay, and Gijjak are the four angels may be due to their efforts, namely, the messenger angel Gabriel, the angel Michael who moves the world, the angel Isrofil who blows the trumpet in the Hereafter, and the angel of death in the body of Adam. According to musicians and craftsmen, they took mulberry wood from heaven to make instruments. From the above it can be concluded that our national instruments were formed before and during our era, and some of them still retain their appearance, albeit partially. Keywords: music, instrument, circle, tanbur, rubob, ud, melody. In the book of President Islam Karimov "High spirituality is an invincible force" The book proudly acknowledges the discovery of a bone flute along with gold and bronze objects in a woman's grave in the village of Muminabad near Samarkand, which has a unique musical culture in the Bronze Age. The circular circle-shaped instrument found in the Saymalitosh rock drawings on the Fergana mountain range and depicted among the participants of the ceremony is also believed to date back to the 2nd century BC.
    [Show full text]