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Indonesian Instruments by Mike Whitla |
Topic: Gamelan |
| Photos of some of the many gamelan instruments that are used in Indonesia |
| Published: Sunday 23 April, 2006 |
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The Music of the Mountains of Altai by Face Music |
Topic: Ethnomusicology |
| Kai is one of the oldest forms of overtone singing (throat-singing) using only the lowest and highest register.
Sikit means 'to whistle' and is the highest, brightest style of overtone singing, in which the highest register of the voice is used. (In nature every sound has overtones - even the whist... |
| Published: Sunday 23 April, 2006 |
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Ukrainian Music by Face Music |
Topic: Ethnomusicology |
| Traditional Ukrainian music is predominantly heterophonic: songs are distributed among different voice parts, with one leading voice, mostly in a middle register. The lead singer (zaspivoovach) determines the course of the melody and the other voices come in later. This heterophonic group singing is... |
| Published: Sunday 23 April, 2006 |
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What is Gamelan Degung? by Andrew Timar |
Topic: Gamelan |
| In the western third of the island of Java, an area with its own language and culture, live the Sundanese people. They play a unique type of gamelan called Degung - often these days, the term gamelan is implicit and is not used to describe [gamelan] degung. Degung developed in the small courts of Su... |
| Published: Friday 07 April, 2006 |
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What is Gamelan? by Andrew Timar |
Topic: Gamelan |
| Gamelan is an indigenous Indonesian orchestra composed largely of pitched percussion instruments. These appear in the form of knobbed gongs, some of which are suspended and some laid out horizontally on rope supports and keyed metallophones, mounted on trough or tubular resonators. Additional instru... |
| Published: Friday 07 April, 2006 |
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Canada's Darbazi 1997 tour of Georgia by Mike Whitla |
Topic: Georgian Music |
| During the summer of 1997, 12 or so of my friends and choirmates in Darbazi and I decided to take a tour of Georgia. While there we were joined by the trio Kavkasia, an American trio who also sings the music of the Republic of Georgia. Our plan was to sing at concerts, learn songs and to absorb Geor... |
| Published: Friday 07 April, 2006 |
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On Georgian Folk Music by Andrea Kuzmich |
Topic: Georgian Music |
| The unique and vibrant folk music of Georgia has a storied past of its own. As early as 714 BC an Assyrian ruler described how the workers of a Georgian tribe (then known as Mana) accompanied their harvest tasks with 'cheerful songs'. The Greek historian Xenophon reported (in 401 BC) that the Mosini... |
| Published: Friday 07 April, 2006 |
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