but wait there are hurdygurdies all over europe - from Russia and Hungary, up until Galiza (in Spain)
the scale on the Tekero, for example, follows one of the Arabic/Turkish maqaamaat (arabic modes) and some of the Hungarian HG melodies are the same I have seen bellydanced to in the Middle East. Exactly the same tunes! The HG is not only confined to a couple of French rural regions... Augusto Brazil On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Henry Boucher <[email protected] > wrote: > > Le 09-12-12 à 02:20, [email protected] a écrit : > > > .....but one reason that I never do is the consideration that I wasn't > actually there in the middle ages and the renaissance. I can make guesses > about how it might have sounded and others can too, but we can never really > know, so there are pretty sharp limits to the judgments we can make. > > > Guesses ? Here it is not the musician who answers but the > history buff . People who do research are always arguing among > themselves on certain points > but generally agree on a a basic knowledge on a subject . What you > call " guess " is a " working hypothesis " which gets proven or denied > over time . > > But at this point , I would like to bring another point of view > . For Americans the HG may be the " coolest thing " for a while > until the next fashion comes up . > For other people , it is a national /familial > /cultural/historical/whatever tradition . For most of us the HG does not > really mix with belly dancing and people for who > belly dancing is familial or cultural tradition do not think much of HG > either. Métissage that is fun on a camping ground in France is close to > annoying on a YouTube > clip made in the USA , but this is something Americans can not imagine. > I wonder how Belgians felt when they heard jazz music played on > the saxophone for the first time ? Maybe the history of the HG has now > moved to the > USA as the Scottish bagpipe had to go through England to be known > all over the British empire and former colonies ? History will tell. > > Henry , dit Tourblanche . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "hurdygurdy" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<hurdygurdy%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy > > The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at > http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from > new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster.
