How are you?
Following the last week, I am going to start my
25th 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 25th lecture for today is "World
Music: Gypsy music in Eastern Europe".
This lecture was the 25th lecture of “ACJ Music
Academy”, which was held on 17 October 2015.
The word “Gypsy” often appears when talking
about popular music in the Middle East and Europe.
The Gypsies are vagabonds wandering around,
rather than settling in one area, and their musical tastes also show wandering.
But they did not only absorb local music, but
also had an extraordinary musical talent making their own music based on the local
music of the settled area.
The reason why Gypsies, settled in many
European countries, were able to play a leading role in the development of folk
music in their settlements is because they had the natural talent to borrow and
develop music.
The Gypsies also had a natural talent for playing
musical instruments such as guitars and violins.
The Gypsies are famous for flamenco guitars in
Spain, violins in Hungary, vocal music in Russia, and brass bands in the
Balkans.
The Balkans, living about half of the Gypsies
in Europe, are known as the world's most populated areas of the Gypsies.
The musical characteristics of the Gypsies are
the same throughout Eastern Europe.
The Gypsy musicians throughout Eastern Europe
have played an important role in the folk music traditions of the countries
where they settled, and indeed, most of the music considered as Eastern
European folk music was played by the Gypsies.
However, critics have also criticized the
destruction or dilution of traditional music due to the characteristics of the
Gypsies, who had great talent in borrowing and transforming local folk music.
Looking at Gypsy music by European countries,
the basic music of Albanian Gypsies is "Kumpaneia" music consisting
of clarinet, violin, accordion or lute.
In Macedonia, the music which is called “Calgia”
is a modern electric sound, mostly played by Gypsies.
In Serbia, ‘Brass band’ music is mainstream.
Hungary is famous for the birth of the word “Gypsy
Violin”.
In Russia, the Gypsies performed prominently on
the vocal area.
Today, I will introduce 3 Gipsy music as
follows:
1. Ahaj Devla-Ando Drom (Hungary)
2. Czardas-Roby Lakatos (Hungary)
3. Caje sukarije- Esma Redzepova (Macedonia)
You can listen to all the songs from following
YouTube link.
Next week, I will lecture "World Music: Hungary/Romania" as my 26th lecture.
Thank you.
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