From kinny. Sent Mon, May 3rd 1999, 19:07
From kinny. Sent Mon, May 3rd 1999, 19:07
From: "Irene McC" <xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx> Organization: substar sound system To: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx Date sent: Mon, 3 May 1999 16:01:42 +0200 Subject: (idm) musicology 0.1 (pretty I but not current DM) Send reply to: xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx > Thus it was with some surprise that I entered the music section of > the library last week and heard what I took to be Irish music - only > to find out that it was in fact Bulgarian. I now have this CD on hire : > Traditional Music from the Balkans - and it is truly beautiful. The > librarian assured me that the use of bagpipes in the Balkans > predated that of the Celts by quite a period of time. yes it true. i just went to the Museum of Scotland last Friday and learnt that the Romans were actually the first users the bagpipe. it was only later that "scottish" bagpipe used by the celts came into existence. > What I also find fascinating is the use of call and response patterns > in much of this music (and the selections are of Greek, Bulgarian, > Macedonian, Arabian, Turkish and Rumanian origin). > > Who can give me some more basic background information on all > this? Apologies if anyone considers this irrelevant to IDM - imo. i think the best way to get to know more about the music from these regions is by watching their films. i am in particular interested in the films (and music) from slavic countries. > although it is not of a current nature, it is still fundamentally > DANCE music and much of it relies on repetition and patterns still > employed by music makers today. currently, i'm interested in composers like Zbigniew Preisner who did Three Colours: Blue, White, Red, and most recently, _Requiem for my Friend_ (dedicated to kieslowski who passed away recently). while it may not be traditional polish music, he is still a very good composer from the region. another personal favourite is Emir Kusterica's _Underground_ soundtrack by composer Goran Bregovic <http://www.komuna.com/underground/index.html>, a film you may also be interested in watching is _Before the Rain_ by Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski: <http://www.igc.apc.org/balkans/rain.html> of course there is is the polish film soundtrack called "With Fire and Sword" ("Ogniem i mieczem") by Krzesimir Debski (Krzesimira Debskiego). you may like to check out the soundtrack. you can find it at <http://www.mitmusic.com/> which also has alot of polish music. hope this helps! kinny.