How are you?
Following the last week, I am going to
start my 22nd lecture.
I had conducted music lectures at Art
Collage JANG in Seoul, South Korea every Saturday from March 2015 to December
2017.
I am going to introduce some of the music
in the lecture with a brief overview of the lecture by the lecture’s order
every Saturday.
Please refer to the following link for my
previous lectures.
The 22nd lecture for today is "World
Music: Benelux".
This lecture was the 22nd lecture of “ACJ
Music Academy”, which was held on 12 September 2015.
Benelux is a union of Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg in Europe.
In 1944, exiled representatives of three
countries signed “The London Customs Convention” in England, the treaty that
established the “Benelux Customs Union”, and then the name began to be used
after the three countries.
The treaty came into force in 1948 and
covered the elimination of tariffs between the three countries and common
tariffs to third countries.
In 1960, the alliance was developed into a
“Benelux Economic Union” that ensures the free trade of labor, capital,
services and goods in the region.
The Belgian music shows a complex mixture of
music of German minorities, immigrants of Democratic Republic of Congo and
other countries, as well as Flemish Dutch-speaking and Walloon French-speaking
traditions.
For the folk and traditional music,
“Bobbejaan Schoepen” was the first Belgian singer to enter the world stage, and
recorded folk music singing in Flemish dialect in the 1950s.
Dutch folk music is characterized by a
simple and straightforward bass and a style complemented by fast and pleasant
melodies.
Unlike folk music from other European
countries, Dutch folk music is not the melody but the bass line that is danced
to.
This means that although the music itself
sounds fast, the dance usually has a medium or slow tempo, and the dance is
primarily a group dance rather than individual or dual dances.
In the 1970s, Dutch artists such as Jos
Koning, Dommelvolk and Wolverlei led the movement for a “Roots Revival”, and as
a result, the revival of folk music in the Netherlands peaked in 1974.
The first reference of Luxembourg music is
related to Roman culture and musical style, and most of its musical heritage is
closely related to German tradition.
Luxembourg has a long history of dance
tradition that reflects many of the dance traditions found in neighboring countries.
However, there are also pure traditional
dances of Luxembourg itself, and one of the most famous traditional dances is
the dance procession at Echternach.
Today, I will introduce 3 Benelux music as
follows:
1. Café Zonder Bier-Bobbejaan Schoepen (Belgium)
2. Jagertje-Wolverlei (Netherlands)
3. Dancing Procession of Echternach (Luxembourg)
You can listen to all the songs from
following YouTube link.
Next week, I will be with you with
"World Music: Germany" as my 23rd lecture.
Thank you.
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