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European Folk Songs

Irish Folk Songs: (1) Folk songs sung in the Irish language: lyrical love songs predominate, and the content is close to French literature. Its basic form is to accept the influence of French culture from the 13th to 14th centuries. (2) Folk songs sung in English: In addition to receiving the influence of English folk songs, they also remained in the form of love songs, singing about the content of personal life, as well as singing about political content and the spirit of patriotism, and constantly produced a variety of new songs. Most of these are in the seven-tone scale. 2, Ireland's symbolic instrument - the Irish harp, in addition, Ireland's folkloric instruments are the Verein flute, the two types of bagpipes of the Scottish Highlands, the box-shaped drum bodhran with goatskin protection, etc.

Whistle flute to play the "Barley swaying in the wind", "the island of the dame"

Musical culture in France (1) For historical reasons, the musical culture of the various tribes in this region became the basis for the development of French musical culture, and in the subsequent long-term development process, roughly formed two major types of musical culture in the north and south: the musical culture of the southern region of France, more inherited from the Greco-Roman era of the Mediterranean musical culture of the musical culture of the northern region of France, the more accepted by the Frankish influence of the Germanic system. (2) in the process of modernization, with Paris as the center of the northern region with a strong European elements of the music has become a representative of France, which, in particular, is known as the popular song of the city music is more typical of the significance. 2, the characteristics of the French folk song: focus on the lyrics of the chant, some of the old folk song melody is in the language tone based on the initial processing and become.

Popular song "Dead Leaves"

Male chorus of the Pyrenees Plateau "The Mountains"

Bourbonais / Auvergne place of the bagpipe playing "My Lovely Anne"

Paris, Bar Musset "Ah, Paris"

Poitou region of the dance "Brownleys"

SwitzerlandThe representative genre of the Swiss traditional music is the Yoder chorales and Alpine trombone repertoire, which are forms of genre that arose out of the economic life of the Alps. Jodl chorale: the melody is based on the breakdown of the dominant and dominant chords, often in a strictly symmetrical structure, and is sung by two or three or four voices. Alpine Trombone Repertoire: Originally used as a signal for the gathering of livestock in the summer on the pastures of the Alps, the trombone was used as a small horn to make it easier to carry and to play, and was gradually replaced by a large horn in the 18th century, and then in the early 19th century trombone ensembles appeared in various competitions and were organized into associations and groups.

Natua Yoder

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