ETHNOMUS 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pentatonic Scale, Qin Dynasty, Wind Instrument
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Became independent in 1949 after annexed by great brit irish preference for monophonic: solos on instruments, heterophonic textures same melody, different ornamentation and tone instrumental music-drone. Vocal music-narrative storytelling scales and modes: dorian,mixolydian context of performance traditional music characteristics. Music for dancing and solo for narrative emphasis on solo performance. Based on 3 scales: dorian, mixilidean jigs,reels(scottish), hornpipes (english) polkas. Generally played: sea-nos (individual, upperbody stiff movementknee dow they step lightly, step dancing-(leg movement is faster step loudly, set dancing- step dancing in groups w/ parthnesrs. Neo traditional: seanus ennis- documentary performance, collected and raised awareness of irish trad mus readings, uilleann pipes=drone,requlation,melody pipe, music evolved from music 4 dancing to music for socializing, only melodic instruments in irish music. The zheng is a zither, strings body out of wood: 21 strings 8 octaves, 2 hand technique (when playing the zheng) arose in the communist period tremolo-rapid roll on a single pitch.
