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  Columbia Encyclopedia- Gascony - AOL Research & Learn
The duchy's borders fluctuated as the Basques fought the Visigoths, the Franks, and the Arabs throughout the Merovingian period.
Gascony shared the fate of Aquitaine, fell under English control in 1154, and was a major battleground in the Hundred Years War (1337–1453); it was completely recovered by France in 1453.
Gascony was then not a political unit; most of its territory was held by the counts of Armagnac, the counts of Foix, and the lords of Albret.
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 Music Of Gascony (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Gascony is a region of France that has produced several well-known performers and composers of classical, folk and popular music.
Gascon folk music is known for a kind of small pipes called '' boha '', which have a rectangular chanter and drone combination, (this form is unique to Gascony), and are made out of sheepskin with the fleece showing.
Gascony, like many regions of France, and elsewhere in Europe, underwent a roots revival in the early to mid 1970s.
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 Newberry Library | Newberry Consort Repertoire - Titurel Fragments
When they were in tune with the cosmos, their music could take on magical and healing powers, focusing the concentration, and, by giving joy to their hearts, cure melancholia, sleeplessness, and the stings of venomous insects.
The music, a single melodic line, is highly unusual; it consists primarily of two motifs, a seven-note descending scale, and a rising four-note figure.
Scholars suggest that there were two possible ways of setting the poetry to music: the first method was to use a melody that matched the versification and rhyme scheme; the second was to supply a chordal pattern over which the singer improvised an intonation.
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 About fife from Nice - Traditional music from County of Nice - The instruments
In the medieval time, musical instruments were distributed in two groups: the “high” and the “low” instruments, according not to their tessiture, but to the intensity of the emitted sounds.
The use of the fife in the traditional music of the County is given evidence from the XVII-th century.
For its use in the traditional music of the County of Nice, it is handy struck on only one of its two skins, by a leather bass drumstick.
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 French folk music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The most iconic form of Provencal folk music is a duo of fife and drum, or ensembles of galoubets-tambourins; the most prominent characteristic of the region's folk music, however, is the Italian musical influence.
The southwestern region of Roussillon's music is shaped by its unique ethnicities, and includes forms of Catalan and Gypsy music.
Joseph Canteloube was a well-known composer from Auvergne in the early 20th century, and produced a famous collection of folk music called Songs of the Auvergne.
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 Music of France (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Main article: Music of Gascony One of the biggest stars of the French roots revival was Perlinpinpin Folc, formed in 1972 and led by Christian Lanau, whose Musique Traditionelle de Gascogne was a popular release that sparked interest in the traditional music of Gascony.
Secular music in medieval France was dominated by troubadours, jongleurs and trouveres, who were poets and musicians known for creating forms like the ballade and lai.
The first was the ars nova, the new, predominantly secular music which began with the publication of the Roman de Fauvel, and culminated in the rondeaux, ballades, lais, virelais, motets, and single surviving mass of Guillaume de Machaut, who died in 1370.
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 City of the month   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Musical life centres on the Théâtre du Capitole which was built on to the architectural complex of the City Hall after 1736.
He gave the musical life of Toulouse a new impetus and arranged the conversion of the former Halle aux Grains (covered market) with its exceptional acoustics.
Music to charm every ear, from the curious amateur to the most well-informed music lover.
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 1992 Concert Tour -- Kenyon College Chamber Singers -- Ensembles -- Music Department -- Kenyon College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Argento musically reinforces this satire by having half the chorus sing in stately (or perhaps pompous) parallel fifths while the other half interrupts the serenity with quick, staccato coments about the vices of gluttony, laziness and hypocrisy.
The programmatic chanson "La Guerre" is a musical depiction of an actual battle that took place between the forces of Francis I and Milan's mercenary army in the year 1515.
Farmer's "Fair Phyllis" is an example of the musical form known as a "catch", a work in which the musical juxtaposition of apparently unrelated words or phrases take on a new (and often bawdy) meaning.
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 Newberry Consort
The Newberry Consort is the resident early music ensemble of the Newberry Library, and is one of the institution's oldest and most valued public programs.
One of last season's programs—Paris from Villon to Rabelais: Music of the Streets, Theater, and Courts—will be released on CD in 1998 and marks the first of three recordings made possible by a $30,000 grant in memory of Howard Mayer Brown.
When they were in tune with the cosmos, their music could take on magical and healing powers, focusing the concentration, and, by giving joy to their hearts, cure them of melancholia, sleeplessness, and the stings of venomous insects.
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 How to dance the revived ancient dances. By Ardern Holt.
Music, without doubt, owes no little debt of gratitude to the poetry of motion in dancing, and we trace the influence of the dance throughout the works of our greatest composers.
Moreover, the music which should accompany them is most excellent, for the best composers devoted their talents to the dance music of their day.
Suitable music was also written by Robert Johnson (1540–1626), who was responsible for the wonderful entertainment given at Kenilworth to Queen Elizabeth in 1575 by her favourite, the Earl of Leicester.
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 WyntonMarsalis.net
One of the young music students from the local school rushed up to Wynton in the backstage area and broke down crying.
He had done what he came to do: pay musical tribute to the town that, after his native New Orleans, is nearest to his heart.
The anecdotal composition also includes musical evocations of some of the people who make Marciac so special for Wynton: Guillhaumon (Jean-Louis is Everywhere), Lafitte (Guy Lafitte), bassist Pierre Boussaguet (B is for Boussaguet) and the local jazz students (For My Kids at the Collège of Marciac).
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 SOUND=SPACE
as a musical environment for dancers, creating in real time the music to which they are moving;.
The sophisticated music structuring software is easily programmable and particularly well suited to the creation of independent accompanying electronic layers under the control of musicians at the same time that they are playing their instruments.
This is not only a great attraction to young people interested in performance, music technology, sound, computers and multi-media, but it also allows for almost unlimited scope for creativity and creative teaching in these and related fields.
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 Gascony (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Frenchmusic Gascony is a region of France that has produced several well-known performers and composers of classical music, folk music and popular music.
Gascon folk music is known for a kind of small pipes called boha, which have a rectangular chanter and drone combination, (this form is unique to Gascony), and are made out of sheepskin with the fleece showing.
The wandering performers known as troubadours and jongleurs were well-established in Gascony.
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 Coming Soon to cdRoots
Makam performs newly-composed, traditionally-inspired music strongly tied to oriental music cultures, based on the scales of Eastern (ragas), Bulgarian-Turkish scale variations (makams) and even the half-tone scales frequently used Bartók, songs sounding like Hungarian folk ballads and arrangements by musicians with contemporary and jazz skills.
Music from the Bourbonnais of France with Patrick Bouffard (vielle à roue [hurdy gurdy]), Frédéric Paris (vocals, melodeon, bagpipes, harmonium), Eric Elsner (bagpipes, flute), Jean-François "Maxou" Heintzen (vielle a roue), Eveline Paris (vocals), Manu Paris (bagpipes), Marc Peroneille (vielle à roue), Patrick Perot (fiddle, vocals), Catherine Paris (vocals), Camille Daumin (vocals).
Music of Avernge played masterfully by the trio of Anne-Lise Foy (vocals, vielle a roue), Hervé Capel (melodeon), and Dominique Paris (bagpipes).
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 Dolmetsch Online - Music Dictionary C - Cg
A tonal piece of music will almost certainly end on the tonic, although individual phrases or sections may end on a different chord (the dominant is a popular choice).
This Caribbean popular musical form (which became a fad in the US in the late 1950s and early 1960s) is traditionally sung by a single guitarist or by bands some consisting of a drummer, bass player, guitar player, keyboards and horns.
Music and Letters 53 (July 1972): 254-69) that, given the choice of cantus firmus in many early English cyclic masses, many were intended to be associated with the king and certain royal rituals.
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 Gascony page 1
Gascony region - Gascony cottage - Gascony village Gascony sightseeing - Gascony house-plans - Gascony local region
Gascony is not really tourist country, yet it has one of the best climates and some of the best food in France.
This is the region of the Three Musketeers - lazy days under wide and shady arcades; ducks, geese and golden maize; jazz and country music; Armagnac, Floc and Madiran, Buzet and St Mont wines; and with an almost theatrical backdrop of snow covered mountains.
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 The official web-site of Rain Sultanov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
In the late 1960s, jazz music began its second life in Azerbaijan under the guidance and support of Gara Garayev, Niyazi, Tofig Guliyev and Rauf Hajiyev.
Their musical style, musical thinking and manner of performance were not fully understood in their own lifetimes.
The events of the late 1980s and 1990s put their negative stamp on the development of our music and culture as a whole.
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 Cinq Planetes at cdRoots
Spi and the Gaudriole (from the XIII century ancient verb gaudere (to be delighted) use vielle a roue (hurdy- gurdy), fife and drums, Languedoc oboe, hautbois, mandolin along with guitars, drums and bass, using arrangements both trad and contemporary, enriched by original contemporary lyrics.
The son of the legendary kora master Djelimoussa Cissoko, balake was born in 1967 in Bamako, Mali and was quickly brought into the family;'s musical traditions.
Innovative performances on Moldavian cimbalom music in a series of new compositions both the tradition and pretty far on the outside edge.
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 World Music Central - Your connection to World Music
Verd e Bleu is an Occitan group of traditional music from Gascony, France, created in 1987.
For the past twenty years they have collected, learnt, produced and spread the traditional music and dance of the Gascon province of France, in all its wealth and diversity.
The musicians play music as they have discovered it themselves or as it has been transmitted to them by collectors.
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 Records International Catalogue July 2006
Thomas' Dickinson settings evoke the images of light and energy contained in the poet's mystical verse, the music is vividly and energetically constructed and orchestrated, emphasizing the bright and ecstatic, in a basically tonal idiom.
Musically it is precise and pungent, most imaginatively scored for small ensemble, while the three soloists are treated to much grateful and idiomatic, melodic, material.
Instrumentally the music has something of neoclassical clarity to it, - and there are certainly echoes of Stravinsky - though overall the language tends further toward atonality than this description might suggest, though with the heightened emotional effect of unexpected passages of sustained lyricism.
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 brainstorms
wolframtones is an experiment in a supposed new kind of music.
[i spent quite a bit of time listening to those experiments in stochastic music - i was in computer science and also an electronic music dj for radio york] so far as i can tell, the only thing that is different from what i heard in the past is the level of aggrandizement.
this is especially ironic and disturbing when one spends some time thinking about the origins and culture of jazz music, and wynton's source material in general in conjunction with copyright laws.
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 The Austin Chronicle Music: TCB
After outgrowing the convention center in Nashville, the Summer Session moved to Indianapolis last year, causing members to grumble that it needed to be somewhere with a better musical reputation.
One theory holds that the Moors brought early guitars with them into Spain, while another proposes the opposite: that guitars became popular in Spain because the similarities of mandolins and lutes to the Arabic oud reminded Spaniards of their only recently expelled Moorish conquerors.
Either way, a gitarer played at England's Feast of Westminster in 1306, and by the Renaissance, guitars were firmly entrenched in European musical culture: Vivaldi, J.S. Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, and Bartok, among a host of others, all composed works for the guitar.
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 Le Lavandou
Le Lavandou is a spacious well-equipped 5 bedroom Gascony country house in a beautiful area of South West France
Gascony - one of the most attractive regions of France
Gascony is a beautiful region of South West France, mid-way between the Atlantic and Mediterranean, bordered by the Pyrénees to the South and the Garonne River to the North.
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 Live & On Record | THE WYNTON MARSALIS SEPTET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
But they did play decidedly "off-mike," and their first, beautifully voiced chord hit the room like a soft, aromatic cloud.
There were two numbers from the 1999 The Marciac Suite (Columbia): "Jean-Louis Is Everywhere," with its bluesy multi-section theme full of tricky stop-times and breaks, and the ballad "Mademoiselle D’Gascony." As usual, Marsalis couldn’t resist telling the audience how "hard" the music was, particularly "Jean-Louis." ("It has a lot of parts to it.
Here he was as good as his word, playing a lot of "hard" fast chord changes, curling his breathless extended lines around the end of every chorus, plugging in a mute for the patter-aria finale.
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 Music of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Uniquely Celtic in character, Breton folk music has had perhaps the most successful revival of its traditions, partly thanks to the city of Lorient, which hosts France's most popular music festival.
Lully also developed the common beat patterns used by conductors to this day, and was the first to take the role of leading the orchestra from the position of the first violin.
The most important French contribution to musical innovation of the past 35 years is a form a computer-assisted composition called "spectral music." The astonishing technical advances of the spectralist composers in the 1970s are only recently beginning to achieve wide recognition in the United States, though European composers long ago absorbed them.
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 Keithmusic - "Getting Into The Box" French Tune Book/CD
The sheet music of each tune selection consists of melody notation along with accompanying chords, as well as notes on the tune's origin, correct rhythm, and appropriate playing style.
The slow speed version is suitable for learning the piece, while the quicker version is useful for hearing what tune should sound like, and for playing along with when more skilled.
As a long time player/teacher of French button accordion music, I highly recommend this booklet/CD to all players of 2 and 2-1/2 row G/C, and 3 row G/C/F diatonic (button) accordions.
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 Mus Did You Mean mus?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Music history of the United States during the colonial era
Music history of the United States in the late 19th century
Music history of the United States to the Civil War
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 The Marciac Suite - Wynton Marsalis - Song Listings
For personnel, Marsalis draws from his usual stable -- Wycliffe Gordon (trombone), Wessell Anderson (alto sax), Victor Goines (tenor and soprano saxes, bass clarinet), Rodney Whitaker (bass), Herlin Riley (drums), Roland Guerrero (percussion), and a tag team of pianists -- with his own effortlessly fluent trumpet reverting to the neo-bop style of his early recordings.
There are no programmatic pretensions ("Big Train"), no PC pronouncements about slavery ("Blood on the Fields"), no overt homages to Ellington, Monk, or Morton -- just Marsalis sounding mostly happy, buoyant, and, in the musical portraits of his friends, even warm-hearted, hugely enjoying himself as a composer.
The sunny atmosphere is quickly established in the first loosely swinging number, "Loose Duck," and though the music is often difficult, encompassing all 12 keys, the musicians seem to scale the hurdles without an audible care.
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