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EUROPEWestern, Northern, Eastern, Southern
Europe
European Music European music includes a vast variety
of styles, genres, and instrumentation Europe, for our purposes, is going to be
divided into four regions:Western: France, Portugal, SpainNorthern: Belgium, Denmark, Finland,
Germany, Ireland, Norway, SwedenEastern: Austria, Czech Republic, RussiaSouthern: Greece, Italy
Western Europe
Portugal Portuguese music was influenced by
music from Ancient Rome's musical tradition brought into the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans and the rich artistic Europen tradition.
Portugal is internationally known in the music scene for its traditions of fado. Fado songs are typically lyrically harsh, with the singer resigned to sadness, poverty and loneliness, but remaining dignified and firmly controlled.
Portugal Popular music:
Pimba Música de
IntervençãoRomanticLatin (90s)
Modern music:AfricanJazzReggae/SkaZouk
RockMetalElectronicIndie
Spain In Spain, several very different cultural streams came
together in the first centuries of the Christian era: the Roman culture, which was dominant for several hundred
years, and which brought with it the music and ideas of Ancient Greece
early Christians, who had their own version of the Roman Rite
the Visigoths, an North Germanic tribe who overran the Iberian peninsula in the 5th century
Jews of the diaspora eventually the Moors and Arabs
Determining exactly the various influences is, after more than two thousand years of internal and external influences and developments, impossible but the result has been a large number of unique musical traditions.
Spain Spanish classical music was very influential
during the Renaissance and Baroque music eras. Classical music declined through the 17th to 19th centuries.
Spain is well known for flamenco, which comes out of Andalusia
Jota, a popular folk music throughout Spain, is performed by the castanets, guitar, bandurria, tambourines, and sometimes the flute
The fandango, which can not be derived from a single location, is popular across Spain
Spain During the 1960s and early 1970s, tourism had a huge
increase, bringing yet more musical styles from the rest of the continent and abroad. However, it wasn't until the 1980s that Spain's pop music industry began to take off (and this guy).
During this time a cultural reawakening known as La Movida Madrileña produced an explosion of new art, film and music that continues to this day.
Contemporary Spanish pop is as risky and cutting-edge as any scene in the world, and encompasses everything from shiny electronica and Eurodisco, to homegrown blues, rock, punk, ska, reggae and hip-hop to name a few.
From the English pop-refrain words "yeah-yeah", ye-yé (first) was a French-coined term which Spanish language appropriated to refer to uptempo, "spirit lifting" pop music.
Artists like Enrique Iglesias and Alejandro Sanz have become successful internationally
France French music dates back to the 10th century,
and the troubadour songs of chivalry and love were very popular through the 13th century
Motets, a very popular classical style throughout Europe, began in France
Jean-Baptiste Lully, who had become well known for composing ballets for Louis XIV, began creating a French version of the Italian opera seria, a kind of tragic opera known as tragédie lyrique or tragédie en musique
The French composer, Georges Bizet, composed Carmen, one of the most well known and popular operas
France In the late 19th century, pioneers
like Georges Bizet, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy revitalized French music. The last two had an enormous impact on 20th century music, both in France and abroad, and influenced many major composers like Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky
Folk music- French Waltz, bouree, hurdy gurdy, Corsica, Brittany, French Caribbean
France- Popular music Chanson Française- classic, new Rock and roll Rock Metal French house Rap Rai And then there’s this… And this…
Northern Europe
Ireland The indigenous music of the island is
termed Irish traditional music. It has remained vibrant through the 20th, and into the 21st century.
In spite of emigration and a well-developed connection to music influences from Britain and the United States, Irish music has kept many of its traditional aspects and has itself influenced many forms of music, such as country and roots music in the USA.
Ireland Irish traditional music includes many kinds of songs,
including drinking songs, ballads, and laments, sung unaccompanied or with accompaniment by a variety of instruments.
Traditional dance music includes reels, hornpipes, and jigs. The polka arrived at the start of the nineteenth century, spread by itinerant dancing masters and mercenary soldiers, returning from Europe.
Later imported dance-signatures include the mazurka and the highlands.
In the nineteenth century folk instruments would have included the flute the fiddle and the uilleann pipes.
Ireland- Popular music Irish showbands Country & Irish Fusion Pop Rock U2 Enya Van Morrison The Cranberries Westlife
Belgium The music of Belgium is a cultural
crossroads where Flemish Dutch-speaking and Walloon French-speaking traditions mix with those of German minorities and of immigrant communities from Democratic Republic of the Congo and other distant countries.
Belgium Classical Opera Blues Jazz Folk Chanson Hip hop Pop Rock Metal
Electronic African And this
happened….
Germany The beginning of what is now considered
German music could be traced back to the 12th century compositions of mystic abbess Hildegard of Bingen, who wrote a variety of hymns and other kinds of Christian music.
Germans have played a leading role in the development of classical music. Many of the best classical musicians such as Bach, Handel, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, Mahler, or Schoenberg were German
Germany Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die
Zauberflöte (1791) is usually said to be the beginning of German-language opera, which was further advanced by composers like Ludwig van Beethoven
When the Nazis came to power in Germany during the 1930s, many musicians fled the country. Following the war, German composers began experimenting electronic sounds in classical music.
Germany- Folk
Oom-pah (brass bands & beer) Bavarian Swabian Schlager Liedermacher
Germany- Popular
Rock Metal- Goth, Medieval Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) Hamburger Schule Ostrock Rap Electronic & Techno Jazz
Norway Before 1840, there were limited written
sources of folk music in Norway. Originally these historical attainments were believed to have a distinct Christian influence. As research continued, there was also mythical and fairy tale connections to the folk music. Overall the purpose of folk music was for entertainment and dancing.
Norwegian folk music may be divided into two categories: instrumental (dance) and vocal.
Norway After World War II, Norwegian music began
moving in a new direction, away from the Nordic and Germanic ideals of the past, and towards a more international, especially American, British and French, style
Much of the Norwegian public did not appreciate the new direction these avant-garde composers were moving in, which helped to fuel a conservative backlash
Norway