asymetrical meters
meter not divisible into equal parts
verbunkos
“recruiting”  Roma bands (2 violins, 1 bass)
csardas
national dance of Hungary, contrasting fast/slow tempos
parlando-rubato/tempo guisto
non-pulsatile emotional expression/ second half metrical and fast
national folk ensembles
state propaganda
Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares
bulagarian Woman album
Romany
Eurasian ethnic nomadic group (India/Europe), culture collectors
Ando drom
traditional Roma musical group
Gipsy Kings
family from Spain, professional Roma musical group
The Chieftains
Irish musical group that brought tradiational Irish music to the world
Celtic Woman
homoginization of Ireland
canntaireachd
Traditional Ireland- mouth music to imitate the bagpipe
step dance
general classification of jig, reel, slip-jig.
battering
foot percussion-Irish
reel
1750 Scottland dance, 4/4 time, transmitted to Ireland, very lively, with periodic phrasing
jig
Irish compound meter 6/8 lively dance
slip jig
Irish 9/8 dance, feels in 3
ceili
Irish social gathering of singing and dancing
sean nos
Irish lament
cante hondo
traditional Spanish flamenco forms of deep sorrow song and dance in Southern Spain, Gipsies
flamenco
genre of Spanish music and Dance, the art of song, men/women sing, guitar playing
cimbalom
E. Europe hammered zither, very large
Kaval
Bulgarian rim blown fulte held at an angel in front of player
gadulka
Bulgarian pear shaped vertical bowed fiddle w/ 3 gut strings (looks like short lute)
gaida
Bulgarian bagpipe with a drone, blow-pipe, small set of pipes, melody on blown-pipe
tambura
Bulgarian drone lute, long neck fretted lute w/4 strings or double courses
tupan
Bulgarian drum
balalaika
huge triangle shaped lute with frets
uilleann pipes
bagpipe, smaller, no blow-pipe, bellows under arm so you can sing
Scottish Highland pipes
bagpipe, larger, loud, blow-pipes, you can not sing, you must blow…
Irish Harp
National Irish symbol, played by bard-keepers of the geneology
tin whistle (pennywhistle)
Irish small metal flute, held in front of player
bodhran
Irish frame drum played with brush
bones & spoons
Irish ideophone
Bulgarian State Radio and TV Vocal Choir
intended to preserve culture and governmental image. micromanaged, use parlando-rubato/tempo guisto
bard
keepers of the Irish geneology, harp players, travelers
Josef Renzy
revived the bagpipe festival, he’s from Strakonice where Svanda the Bagpiper was from
Svanda
Bagpipe character from Strakonice
Strakonice
The European town of Rezny and Svanda
elements of Europe
non pulsatal songs and rhythms,repetative dance rhythms, bright timbre, asymmetrical meters, follows speach patterns, epic songs, socialist realism (art that serves the state)
Bela Bartok
Hungarian ethnomusicologist/composer, folk song collector
dudy
Czech bagpipe
Accordian
Celtic musical instrument
horn pipe dance
simple duple, slower heavy dance steps (sailor dance)